taking over for an old webmaster

[elliottsportswear]

hello,

 

i'm taking over a website for an old webmaster and trying to upload my new files to os commerce. everytime i attempt to upload or edit already existing files i have an error message saying "Error: I can not write to this file. Please set the right user permissions on: /home/carlos/public_html."

i read through other topics involving setting permissions and could not find anything that helped me. how to i set the permissions to begin with? can i do this through os commerce or is it something you need to do with the original webmasters files? i do not know if he used an ftp to upload his files or how he made them.

 

thanks for any help, i am very lost at the moment!