[NCLUG] SAMBA, Apache and permissions

[mbutcher]

If you su to your apache user, can you cat the file? If you can, at least that 
would indicate that the problem was more likely on the Samba side of things.

On Thursday 27 June 2002 04:45 pm, C.J. Keist wrote:
> This isn't a direct question about Linux, but I figure most of you out
> there have worked with Apache and SAMBA.
> Anyway I have a strange problem when changing permissions on a file (ex.
> index.html) through Windows on a SAMBA share.
> For example: All user files are accessed through SAMBA
> Through W2K, I set the permission on my index.html file so that only the
> user has read/write and nothing for group and Everyone.
> Now this should break my web page, but to my surprise it still loads!!!  I
> check the permission of the file on the UNIX server, sure enough the
> index.html file shows mode 600. Hmmmm, next I check the to see what the
> perms look like on the Web server.  Sure enough it shows mode 600
> too?!?!?!?!  And yet the page still loads in my browser.  So I restart
> Apache, the page still loads; I restart the nfs daemons on the web server,
> the page still loads; I make sure and empty my memory cache and disk cache
> on my browser, the page still loads!!!!
> Its only after I do a "chmod 600 index.html" (in UNIX) again, that the page
> finally breaks and I get the 403 error.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior? This happens on SAMBA shares for both
> Linux and Solaris.
>
> Apache version: 1.3.19
> SAMBA version: 2.2.4
> Linux: RH 7.2
> Solaris 8
>
>
> I just want the chance to prove 'Money can't buy Happiness'" - a bumper
> sticker
>
> C. J. Keist                     Email: cjay at engr.colostate.edu
> UNIX/Network Manager            Phone: 970-491-0630
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