[plug] ownership

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

I'm starting to get a lot of confusing errors with my servers and 
authorities and stuff so in the process I've got like a few simple 
questions but I just can't remember the answer thats all.

1. How do I enforce something going into a folder to be changed to the 
permissions of that folder ignoring what the users rights are.
e.g. I have on my desktop a folder I transfer it to the /workdir on the 
server and people can't access it because the permissions are still what 
permisssions are on my computer.

2. I can't seem to login to the computer as anything but root as soon as 
I put my password in putty dies turns off?  Now if I ssh into it using 
the ssh marc-w at blah.com.au it spits out this error in the /var/log/messages

Jul 29 15:19:20 dhcp-192-168-0-104 gdm(pam_unix)[2454]: session opened 
for user marc-w by (uid=0)
Jul 29 15:19:35 dhcp-192-168-0-104 gconfd (marc-w-3362): starting 
(version 2.6.0), pid 3362 user 'marc-w'
Jul 29 15:19:35 dhcp-192-168-0-104 gconfd (marc-w-3362): Resolved 
address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only 
config source at position 0
Jul 29 15:19:35 dhcp-192-168-0-104 gconfd (marc-w-3362): Resolved 
address "xml:readwrite:/home/marc-w/.gconf" to a writable config source 
at position 1
Jul 29 15:19:35 dhcp-192-168-0-104 gconfd (marc-w-3362): Resolved 
address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only 
config source at position 2
Jul 29 15:19:38 dhcp-192-168-0-104 bonobo-activation-server 
(marc-w-3366): iid OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808 has a NULL type
Jul 29 15:19:38 dhcp-192-168-0-104 bonobo-activation-server 
(marc-w-3366): invalid character '#' in iid 
'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars'

3. Lastly I have a samba login specifying my username and password in an 
auth.smb file with correct passwords uid and gid as well.  If I try to 
gui see it using kde it says I'm not allowed to if I go in through the 
console or konsole it allows me in there using the /mnt/ sections same 
folders same mountings.

Any help would be appreciated.

Marc