This has to be one of the most bizarre one I have come across in a while. I was helping a fellow LinuxQuestions member setting up his home network with a Samba server, a couple of Windows PCs and a Mac. He was using a guest account to access the Samba server and that resulted in some really strange permissions situations. We got those resolved finally. Then I got a note from him yesterday with what sounded like another permissions problem. Here is the situation (which I have been able to reproduce).
Ubuntu 10.10
A pdf file is downloaded (or copied) to a directory /data/MG
The file does NOT have the .pdf extension
The directory permissions are
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drwxr-xr-x 2 ken ken 4096 2011-01-12 06:12 MG
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The directory is accessed with Nautilus
The file is double clicked
Evince loads with an error message
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Unable to open document
Error opening file: Permission denied
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Permissions on the offending file are
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-rw-r--r-- 1 ken ken 1869084 2010-10-27 15:20 Chapter_20
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If I copy or move the file to the Desktop it will open in Evince no problem (with no file extension).
If I add .pdf to the file in /data/MG it will open just fine in Evince.
I then installed Okular as a substitute pdf reader. If I right click on the file in /data/MG - the file having NO extension - Okular will open it just fine. If I change the file association in Nautilus to make Okular the default for Acrobat pdf files then the file with no extension will open from /data/MG in Okular with no complaint.
So I guess I would like confirmation that this bug should be reported against Evince(?) Or do I have some strange permission issue still lurking.
TIA,
Ken
