[Vince]

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Originally Posted by SaintMikey Do the following -- chmod 777 samp03svr - samp-npc - announce. This will help you by giving it permissions to be read.

Using chmod to circumvent a security issue can be dangerous, and frankly it's just stupid.

Likely cause is that the server was set up as root and as such is owned by root. A normal user cannot execute the file because it belongs to root. It may even reside in the /root directory. I would recommend starting from the beginning. Login as the user that will run the server (i.e. NOT root). Then download the server package (wget) and extract (tar -zxf).