[Samba] File Permissions

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 08:56:23PM +0000, Thomas Rieff via samba wrote:
> I have been noticing an issue with file permissions and curious as to your thoughts on this. 
> In the one directory the files started as... 
> ...a 777 file was users[100] and root...now they are gc[1002] and fred_smith [1005], but the permissions changed to 764. I have a mask as 775, but this does not seem to be the case??? 
> Here is my smb.conf...curious as to what I may have wrong on this??? 
> 
> 
> [global] 
> 
> workgroup = CLS 
> 
> server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) 
> 
> wins support = yes 
> 
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m 
> 
> max log size = 1000 
> 
> syslog = 0 
> 
> panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d 
> 
> server role = standalone server 
> 
> passdb backend = tdbsam 
> 
> obey pam restrictions = yes 

Try removing "obey pam restrictions = yes".

Alexander discovered this changes the umask
on the server.