samba - Mar 2005 - permissions modified on shared excel files

Having difficulty with samba & permissions being changed when windows
clients
save files.

Initially files may be shared 0774 (e.g. some excel file) after it is opened 
and saved by a windows client the permissions are 0744.  Thus the next access 
by a group user cannot write the file.

No mask options are specified in the smb.conf so all defaults are being used.  
Is there a reason why the permissions are being changed when a file is saved?

Thanks
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Tyler R. Retzlaff <rtr@myinternet.com.au>
Operational Support Engineer
myinternet Limited http://www.myinternet.com.au/

Tyler R. Retzlaff:
> Having difficulty with samba & permissions being changed when windows
> clients save files.
>
> Initially files may be shared 0774 (e.g. some excel file) after it is
> opened and saved by a windows client the permissions are 0744.  Thus the
> next access by a group user cannot write the file.
>
> No mask options are specified in the smb.conf so all defaults are being
> used. Is there a reason why the permissions are being changed when a file
> is saved?
Have a look at the various mask settings (SWAT's a good help for looking
at what's possible, but i don't use it for real). 3.0.11 here, but it
should be the same across the board.

I have:

        create mask = 0770
        security mask = 0770
        directory mask = 0770
        directory security mask = 0770
        inherit permissions = Yes

In [global] It's probably overkill, but can be modified in each share and
avoids what you describe.

--Tonni

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