[mythtv-users] Scary permission problem SOLVED

[Lee Maisel]

Thanks everyone!

It was in the smbd.conf file, shares were PUBLIC

Fixed!


Lee



On 12/18/2017 9:54 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Thomas,
>
> Monday, December 18, 2017, 5:37:06 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Am 18.12.2017 um 17:04 schrieb Tim Draper:
>>>   ---- On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:24:07 +0000 Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote ----
>>>   > You cannot use that with the -R switch as it will remove the x
>>>   > attribute on the directories making them inaccessible!
>> ----------------------^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>   >
>>> do you need execute on video files - i thought read would be enough?
>>> i was always on the mindset that execute is for executable files and scripts. cant say i've explicitly tested it on video files but 80% sure i'm RW on my video dir.
> Technically a directory is a special type of executable file! If you
> are not allowed to execute it, you can not read it. Goes down to the
> long forgotten time when first directories were invented on Unix.
>
>> The d i r e c t o r i e s need to be "executable". Otherwise you won't
>> be able to access the files inside it. So instead of
>> chmod -R 660 /path/to/videos
>> you should use
>> chmod -R o-rw /path/to/videos
>> or
>> find /path/to/videos -type f chmod 660 {}\;
>> _______________________________________________
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