On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 08:10, Ken Walker wrote: > I have a folder called Cad12. > > I originally created it su root. > > so i log on as me, say kenny > > then i su to root > > i change the group ownership of that folder to Cad > > then i go to a LM8.1 machine and smbmount to Cad12. > > no prob. > > do a couple of cp's to cad12, check out everythings doing what i wanted. > > no prob. > > say 10 minutes goes by. > > now i'm ready to cp the whole contents of a folder. > > It says permission denied. > > so i think ok, i'll smbumount the mounted folder and start again. > > I get permission denied again, can't smbumount. > > look on the LM9 machine, and bugger me the group has gone back to root. > > So change it back to Cad > > to back to LM8.1 and can now smbumount. > > This has been going on for a few days on this LM9 machine. > > Every time i change permissions, groups, owners it reverts back to the > original settings within say 10 minutes > > Can anybody explain this. > > It even does it in the middle of a directory copy to the smbmounted machine > and kills the copy. > > I really don't understand why it changes everything back on its own. I DON'T > WANT IT TO. > > Many thanks > > Mr Smiley
That's truly mega-weird-strange-freaky-mindboggling....and you ain't been smoking nuthin today, right? (JOKING) I wouldn't think that SMB would be changing the perms on the files/folders...at least I'm fairly certain it wouldn't... (Gosh, Batman - that doesn't happen on my RH box...) (g) -- Sat Dec 7 08:25:00 EST 2002 8:25am up 1 day, 38 min, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.12, 0.22 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.
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