Re: question - directories

[Dan Brosemer <odin@cleannorth.org>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:40:32AM -0400, Chris Peredun wrote:
> Dan Brosemer wrote:
> > You mean \\obiwan\odin
> > > Another window opened, "odin on obiwan", with 15 items in it, and 19
> > > hidden items.
> > Great!  So that's what it is... Samba maps the username no matter what, but
> > only presents it as an option if you are the user in question or if you have
> > an active connection to it.
> A computer doesn't need to be in network neighbourhood to connect to
> it, you just need the name.

A computer doesn't need to send out lm_announce broadcasts to be a
file/print server, it just needs to listen on the netbios-ssn port.

(that's what actually happens... there's no voodoo magic behind being able
to browse any computer).

> > > I dont think I should be able to do this.
> > Why not?  UNIX level permissions are still in effect.  Try opening, say,
> > procmail.log from \\obiwan\odin in notepad.
> Access denied. I certainly hope that everything isn't read-enabled.

Good.  That's it then.  The software is functioning as it should.  If
anything needs to be changed, it's user education.

> > If you can do that, then there's something I need to fix.  If not, we're
> > good... maybe we need a little more user education, but we're good.
> Can't read it. There's plenty of other stuff that could be read &
> cloned onto a separate location. At least \\obiwan\bin\root is
> blocked to all.

\\obiwan\bin\root doesn't _exist_.

Most stuff in \\obiwan\odin is publically readable.  I deliberately set it
this way because I _like_ it that way.

Good luck writing to it, though.

That's how typical UNIX-style permissions work.  I set the
default-unreadable flag for files created from windows machines because
windows doesn't have the concept of UNIX-style permissions... so I had to
make some assumption... and with Netscape caches being created from windows
machines, I figured unreadable would be better.

-Dan

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