[Samba] mode=777 does not work as fstab option

[David Cougle]

[user at localhost filedepot]$ touch foo.txt
touch: creating `foo.txt': No such file or directory
(this works when done locally)

[user at localhost filedepot]$ ls -la
total 4097
drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         4096 Aug 11 07:43 .
drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         4096 Aug  9 11:34 ..
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         5914 Aug  1 14:26 bio.htm
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         5930 Jul 31 17:58 bio.htm~
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         4680 Aug  1 00:51 contact.htm
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         4679 Aug  1 00:51 contact.htm~
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         4384 Aug  1 00:52 cs.htm
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         4382 Aug  1 00:52 cs.htm~
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         3495 Jul 18 23:32 depot.css
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         3459 Jul 18 23:32 depot.css~
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         4333 Jun 18 10:10 filebox.png
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       325526 Jun 18 21:20 filebox.xcf
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       189073 Jun 26 08:59 filedepot.png
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         1640 Jul 31 17:04 form2mail.php
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       136541 Jun 18 21:17 Guy.png
drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         4096 Jul 21 07:49 images
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         4192 Aug  3 03:00 index.html
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         4238 Aug  3 03:00 index.html~
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         3999 Aug  3 02:29 license.htm
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         3996 Aug  1 00:52 license.htm~
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         3740 Aug  1 00:52 locations.htm
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         3738 Aug  1 00:52 locations.htm~
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       818059 Jun 21 22:02 logonew2.xcf
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       820287 Jun 26 08:58 logonew3.xcf
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       789038 Jun 21 14:44 logonew.xcf
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       764767 Jun 18 21:26 logotemp.xcf
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         4502 Jul 28 16:41 minmax.js
drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         4096 Aug  1 00:16 oak.theme
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         9474 Aug  1 00:42 photos.shtml
drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         4096 Aug  1 00:18 pictures
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root        28937 Jun 21 14:29 pill1.xcf
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       204046 Jun 21 14:29 pill2.xcf
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         1953 Jul 31 17:56 sent.htm
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         1896 Jul 31 17:56 sent.htm~
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         1953 Aug  1 00:48 sent.htm.save
drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         4096 Jun 26 08:58 .xvpics
[user at localhost filedepot]$



>From: Urban Widmark <urban at teststation.com>
>To: David Cougle <dcougle at hotmail.com>
>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: [Samba] mode=777 does not work as fstab option
>Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 22:00:49 +0200 (CEST)
>
>On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, David Cougle wrote:
>
> > fmask and dmask setting make it work, but ONLY for shared dir, not it's
> > subdirs.
> > the subdirs do not allow creation/deletion/update of files.
>
>Could you please show exactly what you get, ie 'ls -al' in the mount dir
>and in one subdir?
>
>
>The dir and file modes are faked by smbfs, based on the values you give
>it. The code looks like this
>
>         fattr->f_mode = server->mnt->file_mode;
>         if (fattr->attr & aDIR)
>         {
>                 fattr->f_mode = server->mnt->dir_mode;
>                 fattr->f_size = SMB_ST_BLKSIZE;
>         }
>         /* Check the read-only flag */
>         if (fattr->attr & aRONLY)
>                 fattr->f_mode &= ~(S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH);
>
>It uses the values it gets at mount time, but if a file or dir has the
>"dos" attribute readonly the write permission is removed.
>
>file_mode and dir_mode should be the values you gave. If you run
>'cat /proc/mounts' on a recent kernel (2.4.18 at least) it will show you
>the values of these variables.
>
>You should also (re-)check that the dirs and files do not have readonly
>status on the server.
>
>/Urban
>
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