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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Michael Smith on February 03, 2003, 07:05:38 AM

Title: Mystery of unseen files -- solved!
Post by: Michael Smith on February 03, 2003, 07:05:38 AM

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#msg22665

Aha!  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?

Title: Re: Mystery of unseen files -- solved!
Post by: Roy Urick on February 04, 2003, 10:24:42 PM

...and 2) why a Win 9x machine could "see through" the explicit permissions setting?

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could it have been that the 9x machine and the XP box were accessing at different levels?

I found that my ME machines cant always connect to the server and get access via SMB user level access, but still can access the server at the share level. Weird huh?

That could be one explanation. (or possibly totally wrong)