hello,

would you please help to understand how permissions between windows and samba works? i have a windows file server where i share some folder and i put permissions using sharing tab and the permissions tab but when i mount the shared folder on redhat using

mount.cifs command the permissions of the shared files are totally different. it seems that when i access the shared folder through samba client the permissions are defined by umask and has nothing to do with the permissions i set on my file server. so how can i make smbclient on linux receive the permissions i have set on windows file system. because the way it is working is useless as whatever i set permissions on the server the client will have the access determined by umask to these files