Q: Unable to set smbCreateMask on Yosemite server
Hello,
On an OSX server (Yosemite - 10.10.5) I want to use the smb file sharing to allow Windows (Win7) hosts to connect to shares. The Windows hosts must be able to simultaneously write to a file. When I run
serveradmin set sharing:sharePointList:_array_id:/Users/server/Documents/myshare:smbCreateMask = 0666
the newly set mask gets ignored.
Running serveradmin settings sharing shows that the setting remained the default 0644.
Similar for the smbDirectoryMask.
How can I set the permissions to remain at 0666?
Note1: Via the server GUI I allowed all users (even tried with Everyone) to have read/write permissions.
Note2: The Windows application is a Visual Foxpro app, it creates a table (file) that needs to be writable by different clients.
Note3: Also tried playing with setting smbUseOplocks and smbUseStrictLocking but these seem to be ignored.
Any help is appreciated. A similar setup with a Linux host running Samba yielded no issues.
kind regards
Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Aug 18, 2016 12:08 PM