I am just curious, regarding Samba. What are the differences between: "force directory mode" and "directory mode"? And "force create mode" and "create mode"? Don't they do the same thing, or is there something I'm missing?

Thanks

Greg

see 'man smb.conf' (looking for 'create mask') for great explanation

i got a question --

I want to get my windows shares to mount upon bootup, but I add the entries to the fstab file and it freaks out cause samba doesn't load until after the fstab file is parsed.... another weird thing -- my windows server is 2k adv with active directory and I can't get the thing to let me mount the drive using smbmount with read/write access -- kinda defeats the purpose ... so if you have any Ideas -- let me know!


Thanks

Thank for the help. I am reading the man smb.conf. I have a couple of questions. When they say "bit-wise," what does this mean?

I am still having trouble discerning the difference between create mode and force create mode. To me, it seems that create mode (or create mask) calculates the dos mode to UNIX permissions based on the mode you selected, 2770. And force create mode sets the permissions entered (2770) regardless. Am I understanding this correctly? In other words, create mode does a translation between dos and UNIX permissions and force create mode just forces it to 2770 for example. Or are the two related and suggested to be used together.

Thanks,

Greg

Bitwise means bit-by-bit.

The difference between "usual" and "force" create mask due to the operation is taken: AND and OR respectively.
When you create a file the permission rights are calculated (for instance -rw-rw-r- = 664). With a "usual" mask you can "switch off" some of them (for instance to make sure that the file will have -rw-rw--- = 660 use mask 770). And "force" option gives you the chance to set a bits (mask 006 gives -rw-rw-rw = 666 although the original rights were 664)
That's all.