"Blake B." wrote: > > Well, your umask is probably the cause of the 755 creation perms. > Though I think you may want to look into your smb.conf a bit more, there > are more permissions-related directives than just "force create mode". > > Taken from the smb.conf(5) man page (on debian sid): > > Following this Samba will bit-wise 'OR' the UNIX mode created from this > parameter with the value of the force create mode parameter which is > set to 000 by default. > > This parameter does not affect directory modes. See the parameter > directory mode for details. > > See also the force create mode parameter for forcing particular mode > bits to be set on created files. See also the directory mode parameter > for masking mode bits on created directories. See also the inherit > permissions parameter." > ----- I saw the inherit permission parameter but that has uncontrollable characteristics to it. But if memory serves me correctly, there may be a umask setting with 022 - which would explain everything - duh. Thanks and as I said last night, I think I finally get it. Craig