clievers;573515 Wrote: > glad you figured out. i had a weird one the other day. in the past i did > my work on windows, but files are stored on linux - so i just use samba > shares. but now i am using my mac, and on the first new album i moved > from my mac to my linux server, it did not pick it up. i manually > browse my music folder to pick up the new folder. i had to go on to my > linux server and for this new album folder, set executable permissions, > then it was able to see it while browsing. weird. you would think > read-only would be all that is required.
Directories on *nix systems usually need 'x'. > > Execute permission. In the case of a regular file, this means you can > execute the file as a program or a shell script. On a directory, the > execute permission (also called the "search bit") allows you to access > files in the directory and enter it, with the cd command, for example. > However, note that although the execute bit lets you enter the > directory, you're not allowed to list its contents, unless you also > have the read permissions to that directory. > So it's not all that useful in most cases to have a directory readable but not executable (or 'searchable', the label may be 'x' but it's diifferent for directories..) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81405 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
