I mounted my work filestore via Samba on MacOS, and created a couple of files in my HTML publishing directory:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 alecm wheel 20961 Sep 3 12:00 tmp.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alecm wheel 42554 Sep 3 11:53 tmp.ps

…these are the permissions seen verbatim, as seen on my laptop. I shared the URL with some colleagues who reported “permission denied” messages, so I logged on to the server to check out the situation, and found the “real” permissions:

-rwxrw—- 1 alecm 16376 20961 Sep 3 12:00 tmp.pdf
-rwxrw—- 1 alecm 16376 42554 Sep 3 11:53 tmp.ps

…which are rather different to what Samba/MacOS says the permissions are, in my other Terminal window. At the same time.

Should I expect more of this silliness when using Samba, or is it likely to be a server configurational issue?