[CS-FSLUG] best way to set up network permissions

[Tim Young]

If the partition is fat32 then you cannot set regular Linux permissions on 
it.  The fat32 file format does not contain regular file permissions 
rwxrwxrwx.  Linux gives you that impression, but they are really not there.

If you want to share most but not all of those partitions, you will want to 
use a file-format that allows greater permissions (like the Linux ext3), or 
you will need to share the directories at a lower point (share /mnt/c 
/mnt/e /mnt/d/dir1 /mnt/d/dir2, etc.)

	- Tim Young

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz
> [mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of David M.
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:58 PM
> To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
> Subject: [CS-FSLUG] best way to set up network permissions
> 
> 
> Anyone here any good with Linux/Windows 98 networking?
> 
> I have set up WiFi networking between my mothers win98 and my Linux box,
> and 
> for starters for learning purposes, I "shared" my /mnt dirrectory which 
> contains 4 fat32 partitions c, d, e, and f.
> 
> What I want to do is learn how I can share these directories, but not
> exacly 
> everything in them.
> 
> there is a directory in d that I would not like to share that I use for
> both 
> win and lin, but it is owned by root. I tried to change the owner of the
> 
> directory that I do not want to share to myself so I could only give
> myself 
> permission to RWX, but Mandrake keeps saying that root doesn't even have
> 
> enough permission to change the owner of that directory.
> 
> So here I think that my fstab file is what is stopping root from
> changing the 
> owner of that file, here is the fstab entry:
> 
> /dev/hdb8 /mnt/d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> 
> Well is it my fstab entry thats preventing root from changing the owner
> and am 
> I on the right track to securing my folders I don't want the network to
> see?
> 
> Also, since I am not very familiar with networking, I am very paranoid
> about 
> security at this point and would appreciate some tips and pointers.
> 
> Thanks