samba - Mar 2012 - problem with created file permissions

After struggling with my smb.conf for a while, I feel I am missing
something fundamental about how 'create mask' and 'force create
mode'
work.

I have a dropbox-style share (which is working), which uses 'security
= share', and I would like to specify certain permissions on files
created in this share.

In both of the below examples, files always get created with 744
permissions ('-rwxr--r--').

# example 1
[myshare]
 comment = my share
 path = /path/to/myshare
 public = yes
 read only = no
 writable = yes
 browseable = yes
 printable = no
 force create mode = 0777
 create mask = 0777

# example 2
# identical to the above, except for the last two lines, which are instead:
 force create mode = 0000
 create mask = 0000

Is there a piece of the puzzle I am missing here?
I don't actually want the above permissions ultimately, of course, but
hopefully they demonstrate that I am failing to get it to work at all.

This is samba 3.5, running on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE.
I can provide more details of my smb.conf, if that will help.

Sorry if this seems very basic, but my own research is not proving helpful yet.

Thanks
-John

Quoting John W (2012-03-04 19:45:27)
>In both of the below examples, files always get created with 744
>permissions ('-rwxr--r--').
>
># example 1
>[myshare]
> comment = my share
> path = /path/to/myshare
> public = yes
> read only = no
> writable = yes
> browseable = yes
> printable = no
> force create mode = 0777
> create mask = 0777
>
># example 2
># identical to the above, except for the last two lines, which are instead:
> force create mode = 0000
> create mask = 0000
[...]
>Thanks
>-John
Hi John.

I've struggled on/off with that sort of thing with Samba over the years.
The key for me was to ensure I was properly setting the permissions I
wanted on the actual filesystem and not to supply samba with anything.
In some cases I've used inherit permissions with some varying success.

Prob. not the answer you're hoping for but perhaps that could steer you
in the right direction.

Phil