File permissions about samba HOT 3 CLOSED

Windows doesn't really have the concept of an execute bit, and in my experience left janky permissions on files. ServerFault has a summary of the issue.

I can change things so that you can set a default file perms and directory perms if that would solve the problem for you. But managing execute bits, and the concept of other in the Unix on a per file basis over CIFS isn't really possible as I understand it. It's a limitation of the protocol that was never designed to support anything but windows.

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Thanks David, that helps explain it. And thank you for offering to add configurability set the default file permissions, but I don't think that will work in my case - these files are tracked by git, so any changes to permissions will be seen by git as a change. Since most of the files we will be changing are java, I think we can live without the x permission most of the time (or stick with git push and pull to move changes to the development VM).

I am ok with closing this ticket, unless you'd like to add the configuration feature for default perms.

Thanks again

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If it won't fix your problem, then I won't add extra complexity to the script. You're welcome. =)

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