[Samba] Strange directory creation behaviour

[Edward Strong]

Sorry to be a pain, but does anybody have any ideas on this?

Regards,

> Greetings,
>
> I'm having a really hard time getting this to work the way I want it to.
> I have a Samba file server (3.0.25b-2) on Fedora 7 which serves around 20
> clients (mostly WinXP but a couple of Macs).  They all login via a single
> shared samba user which has full read/write permissions for the entire
> served directory.  Unfortunately, I have two major problems:
>
> 1.) On an XP client, when copying a directory over to the server via
> Explorer, it is created with the read-only flag set.  My immediate
> assumption was a permissions problem, BUT if I use XCOPY via the command
> prompt, then directories copy across fine.  This is not an acceptable
> solution, however, since the average end-user doesn't even know what a
> command prompt is!
>
> If I manually create a folder on the server via Explorer (right click ->
> new folder) then it will be created WITHOUT the read-only flag set, so why
> this is only happening when copying pre-created directories is really
> beyond me :(
>
> 2.) More directory creation woe with Mac users.  When they create a
> directory on the server via Finder, it doesn't create properly.  If you
> refresh the folder it appears, but if you try to click on it so you can
> open it, then it just disappears.  Refreshing again will make it
> re-appear, but you can never get in to it.  They can use any pre-existing
> folders no problem, however.
>
> I do not purport to be a Samba expert, so if there's something obvious
> that I'm missing here I apologise in advance.
>
> Thank you for assistance,
>
> Edward