> I've found one tricky hint to use SAMBA server in AFS environment.
> Here I want to propose that SAMBA server should change its default umask
> when it creates files.
[...]
> The solution of this problem is to change default UMASK
> of SAMBA server when it creates files, to 000. Or SAMBA server should
> not check the ownership and mode bits when it is compiled for AFS.
Actually, samba already allows you to change the default initial
protections on a per-share basis.
Read the smb.conf man page, and find the entries for "create mode" and
"directory mode".
I use samba with DFS, and have these two lines in my global settings:
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
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