Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

[Wojciech Puchar]

> the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the
> directories and files
> so i made them 0777. the software worked like a charm for about 2 months but
> after that
> at some point the client couldn't access the files on the samba server.

if it could work for 2 months and then refused - something must have been 
changed on the client software side.