MS Office - READ ONLY problem

[jwan]

Hi,

i had setup FC4 with Samba, created some folders under /HOME and shared it to windows users. I was able to share the folder/files but unfortunately, files that i transferred to the FC4 from the previous windows installation will give me READ ONLY status when I open using MS Office.

How do I make it work as non-read only? however I can open as read-only and save it as another filename under the same directory within /HOME

[giulix]

By using chmod to change the file permissions. See 'man chmod'.

[jwan]

honestly, i don't quite understand how chmod works, I keep on trying out the permission thingy from the gui but its getting far more complicated than initially thought.

anyway i tried doing a chmod -R 777 * from /home I hope it works.

[giulix]

Be careful that chmod -R 777 sets all files in the directory hierarchy as readable/modifiable by anyone.Here's a brief tutorial that explains how Unix permissions work.

[jwan]

Thanks for the link. It seems the 777 is the right one, as I would like everybody in the network to be able to access (read, edit, write, delete) the files. And limitation on access would come from the samba config.

However now come another problem, when a new file is created, it defaults the permission to -rwxr--r-- while a new folder will be default to drwxr-xr-x.

Would that mean any user in the network who created a file/folder would make it read-only by default (from other's point of view)? how can I configure FC4 to make it default to 777 for all new folder/files?

[jwan]

Damn! any file edited and resave will set the permission back to -rwxr--r-- much like creating a new file. I really need help now.

[giulix]

See 'create mask' in /etc/samba/smb.conf, documented in 'man smb.conf'.