[oclug]managing permissions with smbfs

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 25/01/03 Joe Burpee did speaketh:

> You've got Samba running under Unix so it looks like a windowbox?

    Yes. 

> What permissions are your problem?  With smbfs you can do very basic
> stuff, like `chmod u-w', corresponding to the Win/DOS flags.  Changing
> ownership requires a new mount.

    When I try to make the files executable, nothing happens to the real files
on the Linux box. ie. chmod +x file, and then when I look on the server, they
haven't changed. 

    Mike

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