Ok,

i know some people might now rethink their opion about me but i have to ask ...

I have a second webhoster now. It was cheap so don´t ask for support there. It is a shared hosting so no root access!

The Problem
- when i upload the files from an extracted archive to the new hoster they will be 644 not 755 permission wise (directories are fine)

Facts
- i want to install XOOPS there too
- i am running windows/NTFS on my home pc
- i tried several FTP programs ... no change
- no root access / no SecureFTP
- i have a controlpanel with a filemanager on the server that can´t unpack the tar.bz2 archive: gunzip: /usr/local/pem/vhosts/11690/webspace/httpdocs/sites/modules/index.html: unknown suffix -- ignored

So as a *nix noob ... what can i do? I mean i can´t walk through hundreds of directories and change every files permissions by hand.

do you have a problem with the site? I have all my files (except mainfile.php and cache, templates_c and uploads files) CHMOD'ed to 644 - directories are 755 though.

Yes i had ... didn´t work at all but i will try again.
I did this weeks ago and i was convinced that this was the source of evil.

Well i will install again. Change just the usual needed dirs and files and see what happens.

Will get back shortly :)

What shall i say ... it works with 206 and 207 now.

Don´t have a clue what went wrong last time. Thanks Mithrandir for the hint that it has to work with those user permissions too.

Otherwise i would have further waited to find a solution to change all the permissions. But if anyone knows one i would still be interested.