Access rights from Windows vs. access right from the shell
 

Hi all,

just in case my first post is a stupid question - please bear with me, I'm still learnig... ;-)

I've set up a fileserver running Debian Lenny with Samba 3.2.5.
Things work fine so far but I experience different behaviour of some shared folders when a user accesses them from the shell or from Windows (XP/2000).
Example:
There's a user 'karl' and a directory /home/data/test.
karl is the owner of the directory and his access rights are set to "rx". On the shell I can copy and delete files to /home/data/test as expected but when I try this from Windows it says "Access is denied". From Windows it only works when the user-rights are set to "rwx".

Can someone explain why the behaviour is different?
Is it probably a setting in the smb.conf that I've done wrong?

Would be great if someone had an explanation.


Thanks in advance!
Uncle Hildegard

What is the FULL permission flags of the file and the parent directory? There are 3 levels of them, and maybe one of the others is being used. A file might have "-rwxrwxrwx" or the safer "-rw-r--r--". Can you show the exact output of "ls -dl . <filename>" (yes, with the "." as shown with spaces around it, to show the dorectory), from the shell, for that file?