HELP WITH PERMISSIONS TOTAL NEWBIE :-)

[jcannonb]

So I just switced my win2k box over to a linux server. I had a share on Win2k called Datastore. I thought I would simply create a user called datastore on Linux, and use its home directory to store all the data, and everyone who is supposed to see it, would be part of the datastore group. This is all well and good, and I have everyone able to read from it, but no one can write to it. It always gives me access denied. Its not a samba thing, because if I log into the linux server as a user other than datastore, they can read the data, but not write to the folder (like just make a directory). an ls -l command of the home folder shows /home/datastore as drwxrwxr-x.
Going inside the folder though everything else is set to drwxr-x-r-x.

I cannot figure out how to recurse the change of the second set of rwx attributes so someone of the group can write to the folder. I did a chown and a chgrp to get them as datastore, because I copied the files back initially as root.

I guess I need a reference to chmod or something, I do not have a clear grasp of that command yet, but I guess I need it.

Joshua
Please help quickly :-) No one can get to their data until I learn his.

[Wonock]

I think it's this:

chmod -R a+r /home/username
chmod -R a+w /home/username

chgrp -R groupname /home/username

I might be wrong ... 11:00am is to early for me still ;-).

Wonock

(EDIT: I don't know if you want user (u), group (g), or all (a) for the permissions. More info on those commands with man)

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[This message has been edited by Wonock (edited 31 December 2000).]

[jcannonb]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I was able to get it up and working with

chmod -R g+r
chmod -R g+w

Thanks for the help in the right direction.