SAMBA file system permissions

[Jeff Hogg]

Andy Allen wrote:
> I'm mounting a SAMBA file system for read/write access from my RedHat 9
> box, but I have to be root to write to it, which is a pain! I've got the
> following line in my fstab, using dmask=000 to try to set permissions to
> 777, but it doesn't work and the permissions are always 755:
> 
> //server1/data_dir       /home/andy/data_dir   smbfs  
> username=andy,password=abc123,dmask=000 0 0
> 
Hallo Andy,

   Your probably running into the problem of your base file system using 
a umask of 022.  You will have to reset that, or modify the equivalent 
umask setting with Samba as well.  You should add create mask = 777 if 
you want to go that route.  Hope this helps.

Jeff Hogg