Hi Jeremy, Thanks - that does make sense. Can you tell me then why "/bin/touch" appears immune to the Samba settings?
Gerry. On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:48 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:58:41AM +1100, Gerry Marthe wrote: > > > > The relevant section from smb.conf on the samba server is: > > > > [common] > > comment = Common Area > > path = /common > > read only = no > > valid users = @users > > create mask = 0660 > > force create mode = 0660 > > force directory mode = 775 > > write list = @users > > force group = users > > directory mask = 0775 > > > > The share is mounted on a Linux system with the following command: > > > > mount.cifs //localhost/common /mnt/smb -o > > rw,uid=600,gid=504,user=abdv29,password=******* > > > > >From what I have understood of the samba documentation, the various file > > creation masks specified > > by Samba do not override a client umask. > > You understood wrong. The server setting override all client > requests. That's why they're *force* create mode. > > Jeremy. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content > by MailScanner and is believed to be clean. > ------------------------------------------------------------ This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner and is believed to be clean. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
