Check the rights on the files in the directory as well as the directory tree. It may be that the samba user needs group rights to walk up the tree in order to get to that directory.
Also, the samba log files should give you a lot of info on why the request was rejected. Jon On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 20:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello all - > > One thing I've never quite 'gotten' was file permissions with respect to > groups on linux/unix. > > I understand how to set them (values of 1, 2 and 4 with a max added of six) > but I've got a directory i'm sharing that I can't seem to see the contents > off. > > First, in my smb.conf file for the said directory i have: > > [mp3s] > comment = The Entire CD Collection > browseable = yes > writable = yes > create mode = 0664 > directory mode = 0775 > path=/home/mp3s > > (and yes you RIAA spies I own every fricken CD in this directory and no I > don't share them using p2p programs) > > second, the permissios on the files are set to 744 what I thought was full > to owner, read to group, read to everyone else. Right? > > So, I set the owner to trekkie (this account works fine) and the group to > users which both the accounts trekkie and angi belong to. > > Angi can see the folders, not the contents. trekkie can see everything and > it works fine. > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > thank you > > Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
