Can anyone reproduce this Samba problem?

[Reko Turja]

> Interestingly, if I turn off 'inherit permissions', then 'inherit
> owner' DOES take effect correctly. However, that means the sticky 
> bit
> does not get inherited, which will not work for me. I need both to 
> be
> inherited, and for some reason they are behaving mutually-exclusive
> (with 'inherit permissions' taking precedence).

If I understood your problem correctly, you don't actually want to set 
sticky bit on the root directory, but suid - so the chmod would be 
like

chmod 4xxx mydir

In FreeBSD suid-bitted directory will make all the subdirs to inherit 
the owner.

Sticky bit causes bit different behaviour - see sticky (8) and 
chmod(1)

-Reko