Hi,

Here are some example files that are shared through samba:

-rwxrwx--- user1 group1 file1.txt
-rwxrwx--- user1 group1 file2.txt

When user2 (who is also a member of group1) edits file2.txt the permissions change:

-rwxrwx--- user1 group1 file1.txt
-rwxrw---- user2 group1 file2.txt

user1 then has issues opening the file. This also goes for new files that are created (they are missing the group execute permission).

I have set the option "create mask = 0770" in my smb.conf. Without this set, permissions default to something like -rwxr--r-- so this has helped a bit!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi jsteel,

It's been quit a few years since I used samba, so hopefully I can help out here. The mask setting in the smb.conf might be over-riden by the default umask setting on the unix directories, ususally this is set in either /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile, maybe try googling how to set the default umask to allow the group ownership to be set by default.