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Samba,ACL's and create mask

Hi Experts,

I'm using samba -3.6.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8) ,all seems ok. The issue im facing is as follows.

When ever a user creates a file via windows explorer the permissions assgined to the file are as follows

-rw-rwxr--+ 1 tom group2 0 Mar 9 10:02 testfile

drwxrwsr-x+ 2 bob group1 4096 Mar 9 10:38 testdir

Im ok with the directory permissions but would like the file permissions to be 644, following are my smb.conf ( create mask ) details

create mask = 0644
force create mode = 0644
security mask = 0664
force security mode = 0664
directory mask = 2775
force directory mode = 2775
directory security mask = 2775
force directory security mode = 2775

Also I have Linux ACL's on the shares for as the requirement called for some complexity.
so that only a few users in a group have access to the share.Could you experts help me with suitable mask that i need to use in smb,conf and a little explanation would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

TobiasHolm

Hi!

Have you tried:

security mask = 0644
force security mode = 0644

Also check the umask settings that the user has (typically 0022 which creates files of -rw-r--r-- and directories of drwxr-xr-x).

http://www.unix.com/tips-tutorials/19060-unix-file-permissions.html

Have you rebooted the Windows machine after you've made changes in the Samba setup? Might help.

Regards, Tobias

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