[ale] Re: Tired FAQ, but I can't write Win/Samba share as joeuser

[Jerry Z. Yu]

	last time I read the man page or doc, it was very misleading. 
fmask/dmask were presented as 'permission', but they are actually 'umask'.
	so, if you have fmask=000, you have default file permission of 
666.

 On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, John Mills wrote:

#Jerry -
#
#On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
#
#> 	I thought there are option switches to set owner/group plus 
#> file/directory permission (sort of like umask) for the mounted smbfs 
#> shares. I used it two years ago, can't remember the exact results now.
#> 
#> 	-o ip=1.2.3.4,username=mywinnamegid=99,uid=99,fmask=000,dmask=000
#
#I had a shot at this, but probably used the wrong masks. I'll try again.
#
#Meanwhile I think I have a usable combination of 'sudoers' and a
#special-purpose script it allows. Test now it progress.
#
#Thanks for the help.
#
# - John Mills
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