One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...

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Guys I just put up my first Linux file server I am using Cento 6.4 and I have integrated the server into active directory. However, I would like to talk about Samba permissions and Linux permissions.

I'm having an 'odd' problem in my recently installed Mandrake 9.1 file server (which is replacing my NT4 server box at home)<BR><BR>I've mounted a 80gig hard drive as /usr/titan, which I want ...