File permissions for groups in Suse 9.3

adrenaline_NZ · 12-12-2005, 04:51 AM

Hi all,

I seem to have got myself confused maybe

I have a file, called /files with all my music etc in there that I would like to share over my lan via Samba, firstly I would like the users of my Linux PC to be able to read write delete and execute the files and folders under /files.

I created a group in yast called files and added the users that I would like to be able r/w/x/del the files/folders. I then issued:

Code:

blackbox:~ # chgrp -R files /files

no errors, I was happy

I then tested by using a normal user but this failed to access the /files folder.

I'm a bit stuck really now, here's the details of the permissions for the folder /files:

Code:

blackbox:~ # ls -l /files/
total 22
drwxrwx---   15 root files  488 Jan 28  2003 .
drwxr-xr-x   23 root root   552 Jan 27  2003 ..
drwxrwx---    4 root files   96 Oct  8 08:40 .Trash-0
drwxrwx---    4 root files   96 Oct 27 20:59 .Trash-1000
drwxrwx---   36 root files 1144 Jan 12  2003 Applications
drwxrwx---    4 root files   96 Jan 27  2003 Backup
drwxrwx---   43 root files 1504 Jan 16  2003 Games
drwxrwx---    3 root files   72 Oct 15 19:20 Home Video
drwxrwx---    7 root files  248 Dec 12 10:56 Linux
drwxrwx---  188 root files 6456 Jan 18  2003 Music
drwxrwx---    7 root files  184 Jan 20  2003 Photos
drwxrwx---    6 root files  200 Oct 22 18:05 Video

I previously had it all as r/w/x etc by everyone just so I could get it up and running.

Did I miss something, maybe as it's WAY past my bedtime and the wife is getting angry

Any help appreciated.

abisko00 · 12-13-2005, 11:52 AM

What are the permissions of /files itself?

adrenaline_NZ · 12-13-2005, 12:17 PM

I didn't get a chance to post back yesterday, but I've got it working, I shutdown the PC after posting here and went back to check just now and everything works, I didn't think that the user would have needed to be logged off and then back on for the file permissions to work.

Or is there a service that needs to be restarted instead?