SAMBA digest 1445

[Boorman Tim]

Try using the "force create mode" parameter.

Regards,
	Tim

> Tim Boorman
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	samba at samba.anu.edu.au [SMTP:samba at samba.anu.edu.au]
> Sent:	06 October 1997 21:24
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	SAMBA digest 1445
> 
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:37:57 +0100 (BST)
> From: Bishop <se311309 at cr10m.staffs.ac.uk>
> To: samba at samba.anu.edu.au
> Subject: preserving UNIX file permissions
> Message-ID:
> <Pine.GSO.3.96.971006173423.5402J-100000 at student.soc.staffs.ac.uk>
> 
> Hi, I have a small household network and I am providing access to home
> directories on the server via Samba, so that we can edit files from
> the
> other PCs even if they are in win95.  One annoying thing however is
> that
> every time a file is edited and then saved it's permissions are set to
> whatever the share's create mask is set to.
> 
> This wouldn't be such a problem, but it seems that even with create
> mask =
> 777 I can't get any files to be created with group or other execute
> permission.  This is playing havoc for people who want to edit their
> perl
> CGI scripts from Windows, as they then have to log into the server
> anyway
> to chmod them back to 755 or whatever.
> 
> Is there a way to fix this?  Is it obvious, and I just haven't read
> the
> right bits of the manual?  Or am I misunderstanding some basic
> principle
> of Samba?
> 
> Hope you can halp!
> 
> Andy
>