Comment 9 for bug 227808

Up until now I've been using gvfs/fuse with ssh. For the sake of experimentation, I tried this problem with gvfs/fuse and windows sharing. Here's what happened.

I setup two Ubuntu 8.04 machines on the same network. One one machine I created a Public read/write file share on a folder named Public. I did this through the gui in Nautilus. On the other machine I went to places->connect to server to mount the share. On the host machine in the shared folder I created a file named test.txt with permissions of 644. The owner and group of the file were both srubin (me).

Next, on the client machine, I went into the ~/.gvfs folder to find the file test.txt. The permissions on the file were set to 700, owner and group were both apreche (my user on the client machine). I then proceeded to make a minor edit to the test.txt file in the ~/.gvfs folder with vim and write the changes.

After writing the changes, the permissions on the host changed! Instead of being 644 srubin:srubin they were now 744 nobody:nogroup. This is still the same bug, but it is not the same as what happens when using ssh. With ssh the permissions would have changed to 700 without changing the user or group.