Rehashing My File Permissions Understanding(or lack of it)

[Mark Sargent]

>Hi Mark,
>
>If both users are members of the nfsshare group, and /home/nfsshare has
>it's group set to nfsshare, then both users should have write access to
>the file, as you have set read, write and execute for the group (the
>second "7").
>  
>
as I thought too...

>For the other user to be able to open the file, they need read
>permission to the file, plus read (and perhaps execute - sorry, not
>certain here) to the parent directories of the file.
>  
>
this was the problem...dunno why, but, the parent dir nfsshare had 700 
as it's permissions...changing this to 775 solved it

>To isolate the issue to just file permissions (not OOWriter), try
>running the "file" command against the saved file as the second user,
>from a shell.
>
>Eg.  $ file /home/nfsshare/file.sxw 
>
>This will at least verify that the other user has read access to the
>file.
>  
>
good trick that...

>Also, if /home/nfsshare is NFS mounted, check the permissions on the
>mount, using the "mount" command.
>  
>
this does get mounted by a client(s), but, this time I was accessing 
from the server..

>Cheers, Ben
>  
>
Cheers,

Mark Sargent.