[PLUG] Odd perms on vmware:/mnt/hgfs

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Thu Sep 4 15:01:02 UTC 2003


Paul Heinlein wrote:
> The permissions look really restrictive to /bin/ls or a gui file
> manager like nautilus. I'm doing this from memory, but this is pretty
> close:
> 
>   dr-x------  root  root  /mnt/hgfs
>   drwx------  root  root  /mnt/hgfs/c-drive

Most likely, this is because Windows doesn't really have the same 
concept of user permissions as *nix.

The same reason you'll have a similar experience with samba and a 
Windows machine.

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Russ Johnson
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