[clug] Problems with Samba and Win2000

[Peter Barker]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, jimadiva wrote:

...

> [homes]
>        comment = Home Directories
>        browseable = no
>        writeable = yes
>        valid users = %S
>        create mode = 0664
>        directory mode = 0775

create mode....

> [server]
>        comment = Main Server Directory
>        path = /server
>        public = yes
>        writeable = yes
>        printable = no
>        create mask = 777
>        oplocks = False
>        level2 oplocks = False

create mask.

Could the difference between "mode" and "mask" be confusing things here?

Typically a mask of 777 will give you the permissions you mentioned (i.e. 
lots-of-dashes :)

Yours,
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