[olug] Samba And XP Pro

[John Moran]

I don't think there's anything correlating to chown in the DOS world
... there are no owners.  The only thing that would be similar is the
files being located in a folder to which a particular user has limited
access.

Attrib is the chmod parallel.  There are four attributes that can be
toggled with the attrib command.  Here is a link to a description of
the command:  http://www.ss64.com/nt/attrib.html

In the past when I've had errors like this, it's always been because
the read only flag was set.  What fixed it was "attrib *.* -r".  You
would need the /s to work through subdirectories.

John


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:33:35 -0600, Joe Catanzaro <joecatanzaro at cox.net> wrote:
> I've got an old Red Hat 6.1 box running Samba 2.x and I've moved a bunch of
> files and folders over to my XP Pro box with Win Explorer. Now when I try
> to open the files, I'm getting lots of stupid errors (access denied, etc).
> Bottom line is that I don't have the right permissions. I'm using the joe
> user and I'm in the administrator group. So, my question is, where on God's
> green Earth did Microsoft hide the fricken file permission manager thingy?
> 
> A quick fix is for me to share the folder that these files are in and then
> I'm able to work with them, but obviously I don't want shared folders all
> over the place. Also, I believe the root cause of this problem was that a
> lot of these files were in a secondary group on my linux box.  chown
> joe:joe -R *    ended up solving the problem going forward.  All I want to
> do is log into DOS and type:  chmod 777 -R *    and    chown
> joe:administrator -R *     is that asking too much?   Darn XP box..............
> 
> Joe Catanzaro
> joecatanzaro at cox.net
> 
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