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

[David M.]

On Wednesday 14 July 2004 06:36 pm, Tim Young wrote:
> 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

Thanks Tim. I was thinking earlier to go the route of /dir1 /dir2 etc, but 
didn't know if I would end up with more than I bargained for.
-- 
David M.