Change File and Directory Mask

[edit] Prerequisites

To complete this guide, the following is assumed:

You are running Oleg's firmware (1.9.2.7-6b or later)

You have harddisk partitions up and running with an extended filesystem mounted to /opt

You have installed the Ipkg package system.

You have configured your partitions to automount.

You have setup and successfully run Samba on your LAN (using the guest account) and you have some shares already setup in smb.conf.

You have created a new user called 'share' using the Adding Users Guide.

You have already completed the Samba with Users guide

Open your samba configuration file

nano /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

Add the following lines below each share that you want to change the permissions on.

[<your 1st sharename e.g. Share1>] 
path=/opt/share/shared1
writeable = yes
browseable = yes

create mode = 0664

directory mode = 0775

Change the chmod permissions to suit your individual needs.