Thunar and chmod

[Benedikt Meurer]

Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>> Just curious: Why would one want to set permissions of a file/directory
>> to 766?
> 
> When administering a samba server, if you have
> 
>     map archive = yes
>     map system = yes
>     map hidden = yes
> 
> set in your smb.conf, you map the Windows attributes
> to following chmod octets:
> 
>      archive 0100
>      system  0010
>      hidden  0001
> 
> "chmod 766" tells windows the file is "archive",
> "not system" and "not hidden".  It also allows
> you to use the files in Linux, depending on what you
> set smb.conf's "force user" and "force group" to.

Aye, well that's not what Thunar is meant to do. It's a really special
task (for a file manager meant to be used by people who do not care for
bits in inodes). But you can of course add a custom action that does the
"chmod 766".

> -T

HTH,
Benedikt