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What is the use of this [Samba] create mask = 0777 ?

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whats the use of this [Samba] create mask = 0777 wht means mask ?

So I have samba setup and running on my Ubuntu box. I've successfully logged in on my WinXP machine, and was able to browse my home directories but an unable to create files, folders, etc. No write access.

In my samba config, I have set the this line read only = no, thus granting access to write to my home directories.

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[TV Shows] comment = TV Shows path = /media/sdb2 browsable = yes guest ok = yes read only = no create mask = 0755

Have user1 and user2.

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Hey guys.

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I have a fileserver running openSUSE 11.2 and samba services for file access from MS Windows based workstations. My question relates to changing default permissions on files and directories created from the windows clients.

Following are extracts of the /etc/samba/smb.conf file :

[myshare] create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770

I am setting up a linux to act as a fileserver, using CentOS 6.3.

Since I want to have disk quotas and can't install LVM (it is a 32 bit machine), I am using an LVM volume with ext4 mounted as /samba/seg

I have created /samba/seg, assigned a domain group, changed FS permissions to 770, executed:

semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t /samba/seg restorecon -R -v /samba/seg

My config (from test