[Samba] Permissions look different from Windows (cygwin & SAMBA) than from Unix

[Deirdre C. Donovan]

Hi, folks:

One of my developers brought a SAMBA/ClearCase permissions issue to my
attention for which I have no visibility.  Perhaps someone has run across
this before, and could enlighten us?

We are using ClearCase 5 on SunFire 880 vob servers, SAMBA 2.2.

Developer creates file in unix vob, using unix view, from unix machine,
testfile_unix_text
Developer creates file in unix vob, using unix view, from windows machine
(cygwin & SAMBA), testfile_unix_text

The developer's umask is 022

Immediately after creation, from the unix window, the permissions look like
this on the view private files.

-rw-r--r--   1 gcote    vpgrp          14 Aug 14 14:38 testfile_unix.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 gcote    vpgrp         17 Aug 14 15:00 testfile_win.txt

Immediately after creation, from the windows machine via SAMBA, the
permissions look like this on the view private files.

-rw-rw-r--   1 gcote    vpgrp          14 Aug 14 14:38 testfile_unix.txt
-rw-rw-r--   1 gcote    vpgrp         17 Aug 14 15:00 testfile_win.txt


After checkin, the files look like this from both the unix and windows
machines.

-rwxrwxrwx   1 gcote    vpgrp          0 Aug 14 16:07 testfile_unix.txt
testfile_unix.txt@@/main/CHECKEDOUT from /main/1             Rule:
CHECKEDOUT

SAMBA permissions are:

# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = LSILOGIC
        netbios name = nawatvob
        security = DOMAIN
        encrypt passwords = Yes
#	password server = 172.25.8.105
	password server = *
        wins server = 147.145.120.133
        kernel oplocks = No
        oplocks = No
	level2 oplocks = No
#       create mask = 0775
#       create mask = 0664
        create mask = 0774
        case sensitive = No
        preserve case = Yes
        username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/users.map
# this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
        log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m

# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).
        max log size = 50


[vbs]
        comment = ClearCase VOB Root
        path = /vbs
        read only = No
        directory mask = 0775
        directory security mask = 0755

[atria]
        comment = ClearCase release area
        path = /proj/atria
#       create mask = 0755
#       create mask = 0664
        create mask = 0774
        security mask = 0755
        directory security mask = 0755

The questions are:

1)  Why do the permissions look different from unix and windows?
2)  Why do the permissions on the checked out file look like 777 instead of
either 664 or 644?
3)  Why isn't the SAMBA configuration setting the file permissions to 774?

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide

Deirdre C. Donovan
deirdre at deirdre-cassandra.com
415-469-5677

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