SaMBa, SWAT, chmod, & CREATE MASK

[Jason Hackney <unicycle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings everyone,

I am using Samba 2.0.5a and W98SE. I have two shares set up: SHARED
mounted on /shared, and USERS mounted on /home. I think I'm having a
problem with Samba's CREATE MASK.

The SHARED share is meant for all apps to be shared between all (both)
of the users. For example, I have Office97 installed on shared so it can
be accessed by either user. I tried the same thing with StarOffice 5.2
and it gave me fits.  Other programs are giving me fits as well.
Sierra's Mastercook wouldn't work properly until I went into every file
and (sub)directory and did chmod 775 * , this solution failed for SO52.
My CREATE MASK is set for 0775, and I'm not sure if that deals with all
files at installation, but files being installed have the mask 755.  Can
you tell I'm confused?

I want to make every application/file have the installation mask 775 so
both users can access any files to which they need r/w/x access.  What
can I do?

Thanks,

-Jason-