samba - Apr 2003 - Samba permission settings ... Server 777 ... wks 755!?

I have one Samba share on my server (RH9). The permission on the shared 
folders/files are set to 777. The owner of the files/folders is let's say X.
When I mount the share on my workstation (Mandrake 9.1) using the username, 
uid and gid option (of user X) the owner of the files that I see at the mount 
point is still X, but the permissions are now 755. Why aren't the 
permission's 777? Is this a setting on the Samba server?
Another issue related to that:
I believe this issue also prevents me from synchronizing offline files with my 
Windows XP laptop. I map the share using the username X and I am able to 
manually copy and edit files on the server, but I am unable to automatically 
synchronize offline files. I believe that for the actual synchronization, 
WinXP uses the system account and that account would not have write 
privileges based on the 755 permissions.

I hope my explanation makes sense.

Thank you for your help.

Edin

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 01:52:43PM -0500, Edin wrote:
> I have one Samba share on my server (RH9). The permission on the shared 
> folders/files are set to 777. The owner of the files/folders is let's
say X.
> When I mount the share on my workstation (Mandrake 9.1) using the username,
> uid and gid option (of user X) the owner of the files that I see at the
mount
> point is still X, but the permissions are now 755. Why aren't the 
> permission's 777? Is this a setting on the Samba server?
I think you need to specify the file and directory permissions to use on
the client. It can't actually override the permissions on the server (if
you don't have write access you won't be able to write), but it also
can't just use them directly (you have to tell the client you have write
access). I think the relevant options would be "-f 0777" and "-d
0777",
but you should verify that with the man pages on smbmount and smbmnt, as
well as the kernel documentation on smbfs.

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Michael Heironimus