Nagging Windows/Linux file security issue

[macjohn]

I've got several folders on my linux system shared to my windows network (all XP). I occasionally move mp3's or other media from my windows box to linux (usually while logged onto the windows box). When I try to move the files under linux, I find that I don't have access to the files unless I first log onto konqueror as sudo and right click the file to change the permissions to my ID.

Is there an easy way to avoid this so when I copy files from windows to linux, I have full access to the files on linux without doing this step?

[Jonathan183]

I'd use a FAT32 or NTFS partition as the shared area ... FAT32 does not have file owner and the ntfs-3g driver just ignores it. I don't like giving Windows access to Linux partitions anyway.

[macjohn]

When I first created this Linux system, it was to serve as a file server to my network. It's basically just an Athlon 2200 chock full of hard drives. It also gave me a reason to play with Linux. In my first go around, I tried NTFS as my file system, and I'm going back about a year in memory and can't remember now the issues I had but I finally converted everything over to ext3 and it solved whatever problems I was having at the time. This has been my one nagging problem. I have it set pretty well so that only certain users have access to read and write to my drives from my windows network, but it seems that the users that can 'write' also have almost MORE security than my standard linux user (which is why I need to then log on as sudo to change permissions).

[rcgreen]

I can't remember exactly at the moment, but I think you can
set something in the mount permissions on a partition, to cause
all files placed there to automatically have certain permissions,
and perhaps ownership too. There may also be a way that
the remote user on windows is the same user as your normal
user on the linux machine.

As it stands now, who initially owns the new files placed
on the server, a normal user or root?

[macjohn]

the windows user is 'administrator' so that might be why the normal user can't access these files when I'm logged onto linux... I then have to load up a sudo file browser to change the permissions.