How to inherit parent directories permissions while creating subdirectories in samba shares ?
Issue
- After setting the
umaskvalues,files/directoriesare not getting appropriate permissions in samba share. - Group members are not able to
modify / deleteeach other's contents in samba share even after settingSGIDand writablepermissionsto the parentdirectory.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Storage Server 2.1
- Red Hat Storage Server 3.0
- Samba
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