MacOS/Samba not playing nice

[Tom Buskey]

Another approach would be to use NFS for MacOSX and see how that works.
 NFS is more native to Linux & Macintosh than CIFS.

It might not be easier and I like Ben's approach of forcing permissions a
bit better.

FWIW, I've converted a number of Windows 7 systems to using NFS instead of
CIFS to do away with a Samba server.  Like you, I want 777 permissions on
those shares.


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Robert Pruyne <rpruyne at rpc-nh.org> wrote:
> > I have a Samba server running on it to serve files on our network.
> > When our only Mac OS user logs in, and tries to make a new directory on
> > the Samba server, it creates it with permissions of 0700, and the user
> is the
> > owner, effectively disallowing any other user from using the directory.
>
>   My guess is that Mac OS X, being a Unix-like OS under the covers,
> supports the SMB extensions that allow it to specify Unix-style file
> permissions.  Those are thus getting passed from the Mac OS X client
> to the Samba server, and Samba dutifully sets the permissions it was
> given.
>
>   Assuming that is correct, there are two approaches here: One is to
> adjust the client to do what you want.  In theory, this is the more
> "elegant" approach.  The other approach would be to configure Samba to
> ignore whatever the client is telling it, and just set permissions
> from the Samba config file.  That should work, but it's kind of
> brutish, and if you ever want to apply other permissions, you'd need
> to revisit.
>
>   I don't know much of anything about Mac OS X, but this seems like it
> might be applicable to adjust the client:
>
> http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2202
>
> (found with: http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+os+x+umask )
>
>   To instead just clobber whatever other permissions might have
> evolved and apply the same thing everywhere, use the "force create
> mode" and "force directory mode" directives in your Samba config file.
>
> -- Ben
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