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Re: Mysterious changing file permissions



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On Tuesday 17 February 2004 04:46 pm, Harold Hayes wrote:
> I'm using Samba to access the server from Windows clients.  I'm kinda
> new at this so I have to ask...where do I look to find the umask
> settings?

man smb.conf

Look at the "create mask" and possibly the "force create mode" parameters.

Note that these work in the opposite manner as the Unix umask - the 
permission bits set in the mask are kept, not removed.

You can also browse the man page online at the Samba site:

http://www.samba.org

Adam



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