Unable to change file permissions on samba mount.

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Hello,
We share out user home dirs from a a solaris server via samba. On a windows machine I can change file permissions to files in my samba home dir. From OS X 10.4.2 all the files are at 700 and chmod does nothing to them. From the GUI get info just says that I can read and write. The smb.conf on the sun server has the following entries under the [home] section:
browseable = no
read only = no
create mode = 0700
directory mode = 0700
wide links = no
hide dot files = yes

any help would be appreciated. I have also bound the mac to the windows domain and it logs me on and auto connects the samba home dir fine, I just can’t change file permissions.
Thanks,
xom

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Update:
I tried mannually mounting the share via mount_smbfs
Since it defaults to whatever the owner and group IDs from the directory where the volume is mounted, I got 755 for all the files. But when I chmod anything the change doesn’t take.
Is there something seriously wrong with the samba client in Tiger?

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Ok I have spent about 4 days of work time on this.
I am totally at a loss in what to do. It would seem to be an easy problem to fix. Perhapse a config setting somewhere, either on the solaris side in smb.conf or with the apple smb client.
I just don’t understand why I can’t change any file permissions on a smb share mounted on a mac. Makes no sense especially when I CAN do it from a windows box.
grrrrrrrr

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