I downloaded the suse 9.1 iso from distrowatch here:

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/suse/i38...rsonal-x86.iso

I downloaded it to my windows box. Then when I tried to copy it from a bash shell, I get a permission denied message. Trying to use Konqueror, it says it cannot read the iso. The using Firefox, it tried to download it directly to the linux box, and when I choose the location to save it in, it also gives me a permission denied access. I have no idea what's going on. I tried saving it to different locations in my home directory to no avail. Has anyone else experienced this?

thanks.

If the ISO is in a Windows partition, and you're trying to copy it and getting an error message, the problem might just be that the file permissions are set to rwx------ instead of rwxr--r-- (or whatever).

I suggest that you open a terminal session, su to root, copy the file to your regular user home directory, then change the file permissions to at least 744 or whatever you're comfortable with. Then quit being root, and that should do it. -- J.W.

If you're trying to do this over samba, then you may have some sort of NLS issue, make sure your kernel and samba and windows are all using the same language codepage, otherwise the characters you see on the screen and the characters being sent over the network and the characters on the file on windows may not match and won't work. Alternatively, make sure the fillename uses only ascii A-Za-z0-9 and .