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?

"Rob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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.

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
> "Rob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> 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
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