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Have only read access to Samba

Hi I've been struggling a lot with Samba on Centos 5.5 lately. I develop in Windows 7 and send files through scp (ant task), but it's to slow and wanted to setup thoroughly samba. After installing ...
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linux permissions: group files edited by different users

I cant seem to figure out how to achieve my goal to make a solution so all users within a grou work with the same set of files freely. I got a group "developers", and they are developing a project. ...
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Root Can't Delete Folder It Owns

Platform: CentOS 6.2 Shell: tcsh EDIT Brian Swift has pointed out a workable solution. He points out that if the home directory is served via NFS, root on a client may not have the same permissions. ...
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Restore default permissions to "/var" to CentOS installation

So I accidentally ran chmod -R 0777 /var and I need to revert that (let alone allow chmod the correct ssh directory so I can log back into it). I'm feeling screwed, can anyone help? The sooner the ...
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A backup user with specific permissions

I need to create a user on my CentOS box which is only allowed to run a couple of commands: lvcreate lvremove mount kpartx rdiff-backup And access to all files in /dev/ and /mnt. How do I set this ...
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Giving a user permission to the /home directory

I am using CentOS 5.x. I would like to give a user permission to write on the /home directory. Do I have to make it a sudoer? Or is there any other better way for that?
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Linux: Can't overwrite files on samba store

I'm using CentOS 5.5 with smbclient 3.0.33-3.28-el5 (latest version in repo), and I can't overwrite files in my Samba store. I am not the admin for the Windows server that hosts the share, so there ...
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