File and Folder permissions

Question

I have copied some data from a client's home folder to a group work folder accessed by a group in Linux. Other clients can see most of the data except some in a specific folder.

When the new client tries to access the data from a Windows machine, the directories are shown as empty. When the same folder is accessed through Linux using ssh, the client gets a "permission denied" error.

This looks like a permissions issue for the new client, the folder permissions are;
drwxrwsr-x 2 root 4096 Feb 1 11:14

and file permissions are
-rw-rw---- 1 root 11 Feb 1 21:18
-rwxrw-r-- 1 root 1500 Feb 1 21:18

The user trying to access these files and folders is already in the group which has permissions to this work area.
Should I do a
chmod -R 774 /folder_path and then
chown -R (saket):(scannergrp) /folder_path

Answer 1

Brett, you are on the correct path, and yes, ivanian, further information was needed; since the folders were copied to an existing directory there were some folders where the permissions did not apply correctly and had the permissions drwxrwS---.

Also read What does the 's' attribute in file permissions mean?

The command below applied the correct permissions.

sudo find /correct/folder/path -type d -exec chmod g+x "{}" \;