create mode problems (Samba 1.9.17p1)

Tue Sep 16 11:44:09 GMT 1997

With create mask = 0750 in smb.conf I got for 
directories: drwxr-xr-x  2 meyer    urtmit    512 Sep 16 13:28 xxxx
for files: -rwxr-----  1 meyer    urtmit      6 Sep 16 13:28 XYX

Why not rwxr for the dir?

TIA, KD

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