<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4AD14618.6020105@cmosnetworks.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv="Content-Type"> Daniel Loomis wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:2A51F463-FA84-4739-906E-382437B4BF3A@suddenlink.net" type="cite">I just started setting up a new K12ltsp system and find I cannot samba create mask and create directory to override system defaults. I use create mask 770 directory mask 770 in either [global] or [shares] but when a client creates a new directory it defaults to 0755 and any new files default to 0644 Host is running EL. Dan </blockquote> Try the "force" directives. Like this: force directory mode = 0770 force create mask = 0770 --TP </blockquote> Er...make that second line "force create mode = 0770". Typing too doggone fast.... By the way, is there any reason you want to make user files executable by default? I can see directories, but why files? The "force create mode" that I use is 0660, for this reason. Directories of course remain 0770 because of the first line. --TP </body> </html>