Had a weird problem crop up the other day ... friend called me and said he couldn't see the contents of a specific folder within an ibay from his XP box, but 9x machines could. Very baffling, this! I searched around a bit both via this forum & Google and found this thread:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=6314.msg22665#msg22665Aha! Permissions, eh? So I opened a shell and sure enough, the permissions on the folder in question were set to drwxrw-r-- while all other folders were set to drwxrwsr-x. (Don't ask me how.) A quick "chmod -R 775" on the affected folder and voila! the files & folders appeared.
Anybody care to enlighten me on 1) how this could've come to pass, given that the folks using this SME server don't have the faintest idea what a "file permission" is, much less how to set one, plus they don't have shell access anyway, and 2) why a Win 9x machine could "see through" the explicit permissions setting?
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