>From what little, I know, I think you did a recursive chmod. What you did is also dependent on where you were in the directory structure when you did it. If you remember the particulars of where you were, "I would" probably cd back to that location and do a "chmod -R 715 tbu"(turn on the execute permissions) and see how it affects Samba. If that doesn't do it, I'd repeat the command and change the permissions one at a time until I found out what I had turned off with the first command.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TB Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:02 AM To: luau Subject: [luau] chmod link screwup kills samba, login As root I did chmod -R 704 tbu Unfortunately, inside the directory tbu there was a link to /, so it attempted to chmod everything in my filesystem. Now I cannot log in normally and samba has stopped working. Okay, I am not expecting you guys to hand me the solution, but I really need a clue regarding where to start doing my homework. The question I need to figure out is, which permissions do I need to change and what do I change them to? How do I go about investigating this? Obviously I need to be able to log in. And getting samba working again is important. Right now I have it running off of a knoppix CD and I presume I can figure out how to mount my partitions rw & chmod things. I just need to figure out what to change and what to change it to. Thanks in advance for even the most trivial or obscure clue. TB _______________________________________________ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau