Guest Rob Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Linux files have owners and groups. Nobody and 99.99 seem to cause me most problems. Windows appears to ignore them. As most webservers are Linux you can edit files on your windows computers and when you send them up you get a situation where you can't you can't override, edit or delete them when they are on the server. How do you change these values in Windows?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Changing owner of Linux files in Windows XP "Rob" <user@example.net> wrote in message news:%236M31z4yHHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Linux files have owners and groups. Nobody and 99.99 seem to cause me > most problems. > > Windows appears to ignore them. > > > As most webservers are Linux you can edit files on your windows computers > and when you send them up you get a situation where you can't > you can't override, edit or delete them when they are on the server. > > How do you change these values in Windows? You need to seize ownership of these files and folder. You can then set the permissions you require.
Guest Malke Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Changing owner of Linux files in Windows XP Pegasus (MVP) wrote: > "Rob" <user@example.net> wrote in message > news:%236M31z4yHHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Linux files have owners and groups. Nobody and 99.99 seem to cause me >> most problems. >> >> Windows appears to ignore them. >> >> >> As most webservers are Linux you can edit files on your windows computers >> and when you send them up you get a situation where you can't >> you can't override, edit or delete them when they are on the server. >> >> How do you change these values in Windows? > > You need to seize ownership of these files and folder. You can > then set the permissions you require. > > I do agree that it is a permissions issue somewhere, but possibly not on the OP's computer. We'd need more information about what exactly he's doing, but normally speaking it shouldn't matter at all whether the files are being transferred to a Linux webserver from a Windows machine. My website runs on Linux and I've transferred/deleted/uploaded/downloaded from XP Pro, Linux, and OS X machines and have never experienced the problem the OP is describing. Rob - No operating system honors permissions set by another operating system so something else is going on but we don't have enough information from you to give more focused help. Did you set the webserver up yourself? More details, please. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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