Re: SaMBa, SWAT, chmod, & CREATE MASK

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>Sierra's Mastercook wouldn't work properly until I went into every file
>>Sounds delicious, do they have deep fried King's Quest?
>King's Quest?  Sheesh!  Last time I saw that it was on a couple 5.25"
>floppies.

Must have been those crazy 1.2Mb HD floppies that came in the AT,  mine was on
about six 360k floppies (bootlegged of course, where could you buy software in
Montcalm county?).

>>>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?
>>Yep,  Try using "force create mode" instead.  You'll be less confused.
>This sounds promising. Had I simply clicked on the Advanced View button and
>perused the options, I may have found this within a day or two.  (o:  As
>for SO5.2, I don't recall a network option for the Windows install. I 
>probably overlooked it. I don't care much for the way it looks on my 
>Windows box anyway. All the icons are garbled and I don't expect Sun 
>to bend over backwards for me since I didn't spend a dime on it anyway.

Wonder what will happen to the Win32 port of SO now that Sun has turned it
over to the Gnome people?

>Anyhoo, thanks again. We'll see how this works out in a few days when I
>find something new to install.

(In an act of shameless self promotion) You might want to look at:
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/presentations/19991019

Also you might try setting up a "preexec" for the share that does a recursive
chmod on the pertinent files.  That way if you missed a few, they get fixed.

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