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Why do the permissions in Linux look wrong?

April 26, 2017linux look permissions wrong

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Why do the permissions in Linux look wrong?

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Linux and Solaris display permissions in the format of user, group, and other. The Windows 2003 Storage Server file servers use Server for NFS to share out files to Linux/Solaris clients and use NTFS as a filesystem, which stores/assigns permissions to file and directories in a different format. Microsoft has made an effort to map Linux/Solaris type permissions to NTFS permissions for the Server for NFS component, but it is a non-trivial task and can be very confusing. You can read more about the exact mapping of permissions from Microsoft’s website at the following locations: High level overview article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q262965/. Detailed overview of permissions mapping: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/sfu3perm.mspx.