File permissions

Joel Hammer jhammer2 at home.com
Fri Nov 30 18:41:07 GMT 2001


What are the permissions on the directory you are creating these files on?
Joel
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:17:54PM -0000, Tim Allen wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I'm trying to get my head around the way Samba sets file permissions. I'm
> running Samba 2.2.2 on RH7.1 and have a test setup with a few NT4
> workstations.
> 
> The relevant bit of smb.conf looks like this:
> 
> [common]
>   path = /shared/common
>   read only = No
>   create mask = 0777
>   directory mask = 0777
>   map archive = No
> 
> (defaults for force create mode and security mask)
> 
> Creating a file in the directory from an NT machine results in a file with
> permissions:
> 
> -rw-rw-rw-
> 
> Why aren't the x bits set?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Tim Allen
> timallen at ls82.fsnet.co.uk
> 
> 
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