samba - Aug 1997 - Create mask per directory?

Hello,

It would be useful to be able to define file/directory create mask
per directory (and affecting everything under it). So that you could
say in smb.conf file: 

dirmask= /home,0755
dirmask= /usr/local/wrk,0775
dirmask= /usr/local/wrk/grp1,0770
dirmask= /usr/local/wrk/grp2,0770
...

Some users like to access everything from their homedir with one
"network drive connection" and create lots of symlinks from homedir. 
Some other users like to have serveral network drives
(H:=\\host\username, K:=\\host\wrkgrp1, L:=\\host\wrkgrp2). 
But since we have defined different create masks for different shares
this will cause problems with protections...

At the moment we have cron process to take care of permissions but 
it would be much easier for us if we could define create masks for
directories and samba would take care of proper umasks no matter how
to user refers/connects to that directory.

- Goodi
"UNIX should be used as an adjective." -- AT&T

this question has been answered at least twice.  it's a new option 
introduced in 1.9.17alpha...3, i think.  

it's called "directory mask".  there is also "directory
mode" and
"force directory mode", which correspond to the "create
mask" .... etc modes.

luke

p.s - i'll not answer this one again, ok, folks?

On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Hannu Martikka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It would be useful to be able to define file/directory create mask
> per directory (and affecting everything under it). So that you could
> say in smb.conf file: 
>