[Samba] Re: Wrong perms on new files/dirs using smbmount

[Scott Lovenberg]

Michael Lueck wrote:
> Greetings-
> 
> I am working through coming up with a Linux client integration to Samba 
> PDC's.
> 
> I mount several shares with this sort of syntax:
> /bin/mount -t cifs -o 
> credentials=/home/userid/.smbcredentials,uid=userid,gid=userid,dmask=0777,fmask=0666 
> //ldslnx01/data /mnt/ldslnx01/data/
> 
> However when I create new files/dirs on the Samba share from the Linux 
> workstation, the perms are not 0666/0777 as I have specified.
> 
> Historically I set those perms on the share, and that has always worked 
> with Windows clients.
> 
> I added that bit to the mount command, but it made no difference.
> 
> I believe I end up with 0755/0644, but do not hold me to that as I have 
> simply verified it is not correct and that is all the checking I have done.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
  I think you'll find that is your default umask (more specifically, 
your umask is 022, i.e., (7-0)(7-2)(7-2)=755)

It must be overriding.  I'm not sure why this would be, though.  Could 
it be that '/' is mounted with an explicit permission setting that is 
shadowing your mount settings?