[linux-cifs-client] unable to chmod

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:25:10PM +0100, Bernd Müller-Rathgeber wrote:
> Hello, need some help.
> 
> I´m try to establish a cifs mount on Linux.
> 
> mount.cifs works, but I can´t change file permissions (chmod, ...).
> Everytime I try, it uses the settings of "create_mask" in the servers
> smb.conf instead of my given values, but the file isn´t created, it is
> already there.
> With Windows it´s working.

This is by design. If you set a create mask on a share
it will always be applied to all creates via Windows
or UNIX.

Jeremy.