Share settings not working!

[captainkent]

I have a folder called Library/ which has another folder in it called Movies/.

I want a user called bob and a group called library, to be able to access this folder on any PC in my network.

I made a user called bob.


I made a group called library.


I set the folder Library/ to be owned by bob and the group called library.

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chown -R bob:library Library/

Then I set the file to be read, write and executed by its owner and group (not by everyone else).

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chmod -R ug+rwx Library/

With this set-up, I can't access the directory on my PC. I can only access it when I do the following.

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chmod -R a+rwx Library/

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT:

For some magical reason I tried

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chmod -R ug+rwx Library/

again and now it worked. No idea why it wouldn't work the first time!

EDIT2:

If I remove owner permissions, but keep group permissions (bob is a part of library, which owns the Library/ directory), why cant I continue to access my files?

[JacobWPS]

Because only the owner permissions apply to the owner user, in other words, by executing u-rwx you are denying bob access which takes precedence over all other rights. Every user is granted the rights of the most specific category applicable to them, with the following order of precedence (specificity): owner then group then world.