Of course '>' is very different of '>>'. '>' creates a new file so THE NEW secretfile is created with the 644 mask. '>>' appends in the file. If you do this twice w/ '>>' you will see this: foobar foobar But if you do the same twice but with '>': foobar Only once 'cause the file is created twice. Cheers
> A file is chmod 600. It gets opened on Windows, and it gets > changed to 644. > This happens if the user does: > N:\> echo foobar > secretfile > But it does stay at chmod 600 if he does (append instead of truncate): > N:\> echo foobar >> secretfile > The "create mask" parameter is set to 644. I do not think this -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba