In reference to my post a few days ago, I gave in and decided to bite the bullet and work with UNIX permissions to implement what I wanted.

Now I face a new problem. Samba doesn't seem to be obeying the "force security mode" option.

Here's the settings for the share in question:

The folder being shared (/nas/tmp) has permissions drwxrwxr-x and is owned by "admin" and group "nas". All files within the folder structure have group writable permission set. This means I can just create users and add them to group nas to allow them write access to the entire share. It also means I can restrict read or write access on a per-file or per-folder basis.

Now, I connect to this share from Windows and create a folder. If I look at that folder on the server, it indeed was created with permissions drwxrwxr-x as expected.

Enter Mac OS X. When I connect from my Mac to the share as either "nas" or "admin" and create a folder, it's created with permissions drwxr-xr-x. This of course means group nas can't write to that folder.

My goal, obviously, is to force all files created on the server to be writable by the group. This way I can simply set permissions on a folder I don't want accessed to drwx------ and the hide unreadable option will hide the files in question.

Am I missing something - is there a reason I can't get Samba to force files created from OS X to have the permissions I want? My guess is OS X is manipulating the permissions on files directly (it IS unix, after all) and that's why I tried setting force security mode - but it didn't work.

Advice?

FM

Try setting
unix extensions = no
before the share