On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:30:54AM -0700, av78us vaal wrote:
> Hi, 
> Is there a way to configure samba such that Windows applications are not 
> allowed to change file permissions for existing files in the share. 
> I just want to be able to read and modify the files from Windows without 
> affecting the file permissions inadvertently. I do not care about any Windows 
> side file attributes such as ACL. 
> I tried several things including parameters such as 'map archive = no', 
> 'security mask = xxx' etc. Nothing seem to result in what exactly I want. 
> This is surprising considering that my requirement is very simple. 

You can always set "nt acl support = no", which is an old
option from when we first added Windows ACLs. Also setting
map XXX = no will stop DOS attributes being mapped to POSIX
permissions.

Jeremy.
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