umask & dot forward

"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."
>
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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