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    Need Help Understanding Rights for Shares

    I am attempting to SNMPGET to my printer to get sysuptime. The mib file sits in /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ when I attempt sudo snmpget, I get an error that I do not have permission to the folder. Without being root is the share supposed to be available to me or this is a protected folder that only root can access? If just for root why use the word share?

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    Re: Need Help Understanding Rights for Shares

    By definition, you - the user - have read/write/execute permissions to your userspace only, the folder with your username inside /home. Everything else is "system", hence root needed.
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    Re: Need Help Understanding Rights for Shares

    The usr/share directory is owned by root . . . to see the ownership, check the folder props or use nautilus to view owner attribute column.
    Last edited by Geoffrey_Arndt; July 18th, 2015 at 03:00 AM. Reason: correction

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    Re: Need Help Understanding Rights for Shares

    Thank you for taking the time.

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