On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:11:01PM -0500, David B Harris wrote: > Hey there, > > I am, for the first time, playing around with Samba seriously (mainly > thinking about replacing NFS with it). I'm using a Linux 2.6.x client > with the cifs.ko kernel module/filesystem type. > > I've found that I can't change the permissions on files to arbitrary > values; they must not be greater than the bits specified in 'create > mask' (and friends). The problem appears to be > source/smbd/trans2.c:795 (function unix_perms_from_wire); I think it's > applying lp_create_mask unconditionally (instead of just applying it > when a file's being created - I suppose it doesn't know one way or > another, of course).
Yes, this is by design. If you want full client control over the mode bits on a share you must set create mask = 0777 It's a bit of a misnomer, as the parameter was added when we couldn't modify individual UNIX permissions from a client. It should really be named "mode mask" I suppose. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba