[H-GEN] 1. Public Samba share 2. apache Samba share

[Alex Delaforce]

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Robert,
This information opened the door a little for my understanding of
permissions. Thanks for your assistance.

> Not being able to do an ls in the directory indicates that 
> somewhere in 
> the tree of directories above the one you are trying to ls, 
> there is a 
> permissions issue.  You need to be able to "walk" down the 
> tree and do 
> an ls -al all the way.  You don't need write permission on higher 
> directories, but for your purposes, they should probably be owned by 
> root and be group root with the "other" part of the 
> permissions having 
> "r-x".
> 
> you should do something like this as "alex":
> 
> $ cd /home
> $ ls -laF
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Jan 25  2003 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Jun 17 10:46 ../
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct  7  2002 share/
> $ cd share
> $ ls -laF
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Jan 25  2003 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Jun 17 10:46 ../
> drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         4096 Oct  7  2002 public/
> 
> That's probably what your permissions should look like.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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