On Wednesday 07 May 2008 14:03:42 Victor Padro wrote:
Hello all,
I am kinda new to Linux, FreeBSD...most Windows user, anyway. I got a little problem here maybe you can help me solve it.
I just bought a new 500Gb HDD which i formated using ext3 under Centos 5, my plan was to use it under FreeNAS as another Backup File Disk(It has already like 400gb of data), when I try to access the disk via samba/cifs I just have the read attribute or permission, how can i change the whole partition permission rights to be accessible to write/read for everyone? (I will mantain the security using samba users and groups of course.), or do I have to apply the chmod comand to the main folder? I'm really stuck here.
Hi, The correct term is mount point. Create a directory, and mount the partition onto it.
The rw permission for everyone is chmod -R 777 /mountpoint This, however, is a very bad practice. The proper one is to give permission to the intended user/group only, and double enforce it with samba.