Hello, I'm having problems with file/folder permissions on a Mandrake 8.1 Samba server. I have a samba share set up called "workarea". The "prod" group is set up as the valid users in smb.conf. I did this on the workarea directory - set the group ownership to "prod" and did chmod -R 2770 /home/workarea. I want all users in the prod group to have full rights to everything in the workarea folder. Whenever a user creates a folder, the group ownership stays as "prod" but the group permissions change to read-only. How do I maintain 770 permissions throughout the entire directory structure in the "workarea" folder? smb.conf snippet: [workarea] comment = CKUA Production Workarea path = /home/workarea admin users = admin dloewen valid users = @prod public = no guest ok = no writable = yes read only = no create mask = 2770

Hi, I just overflew your post but I think your problem is the mask option.See, the mask means it takes 777 minus the mask and thats the permissions. Example: mask=222 --> 777 minus 222 (binary) is 7-2 7-2 7-2 is a chmod of 555 --> readonly for everyone. You probably what mask=007 which would result in a permission 770 Maybe verify with the 'man smb.conf' Good luck, Solo

I'm sorry - I think mask takes a 888 as the base to subtract from, you got to check with the 'smb.conf'. Sorry, Solo

Thanks, You were right about the mask. The command should be "create mode = 2770" not "create mask". Also I put in "inherit permissions = yes". Everything OK now. Thanks again