Idea #10309: Samba Configuration should take care of file/folder permissions

I noticed something about the samba configuration when setting up a new samba share. If I didn't go in and manually configure the permissions for sharing to occur, it would deny me access when trying to access that samba share remotely from a windows computer.

I propose that when creating a share, that the permissions locally are automatically adjusted for the share to work. I know this makes it difficult to fix because of the limited permissions that are given in linux file systems. But it is very frustrating that I need to check the local file system permissions after creating a share if that share doesn't work. It should all just work.

This problem is very noticeable if you want to share a folder in your home directory with a different username then your own since you need to basically figure out what to set the permissions to in order for it all to work. And there is no automatic method of doing it.

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