Samba?

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> I want to share a directory on my FC6 desktop computer just like I do 
> when I run Winblows.  I want anybody on my network to be able to read 
> or write the files without a user name or password.  I've set up the 
> samba server and it appears to work correctly.  But to make it work I 
> have to set the shared directory to 777.  I expected to have to set 
> it to 666.  Can anybody explain what is happening?

Permission of 666 equates to read,write permissions to all three user, 
group and others. But incase of a directory, execute permissions has to 
be given too so that users can "change into" that directory. Hence, 777 
would be required.

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Vivek J. Patankar

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