[Samba] OSX and file perms oddity

gregorcy brian.gregorcy at utah.edu
Thu Jun 11 17:00:35 GMT 2009



John Goubeaux wrote:
> Samba ver 3.3.4
> 
> I  am seeing odd behavior when writing files to a share with an OSX client.
> No matter what changes I make in my smb.conf file the files written 
> by OSX  do not match those written by a winxp client, example below:
> 
> 
> drwxr-sr-x   2 test     ldaptest     512 Jun 10 16:48 Mac-folder
> drwxrws---   2 test     ldaptest     512 Jun 10 16:45 PC-folder
> -rw-r--r--   1 test     ldaptest     616 Apr 30 09:35 mac-doc
> -rwxrw----   1 test     ldaptest       0 Jun 10 16:45 pc-doc
> 
> 
> I am not seeing the same behavior on a 2.x ver of Samba so I am 
> assuming that there is something different between the two Samba 
> versions and or I am missing something basic ?
> 
> 
> [test2dir]
>      comment = test2
>      path = "/data/test2"
>      browseable = yes
>      public = no
>      printable = no
>      writable = yes
>      read only = no
>      force group = ldaptest
>      create mode = 0770
>      directory mode= 0770
>      force create mode = 0777
>      valid users = test
> 
> 
> 


Add this to the global section:

>   unix extensions                 = no




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