Yup. Circle the wagons! If ya ain’t with us then you agin’ us! Don’t criticize me! And don’t tell me to think! If ya hit my knee, I gonna kick! Twitch

There are two wrong sides here… so it can be difficult to predict what anyone will lean further away from. Beware of assuming that means they are leaning toward the other side though.

Still only two legs…

… which is why you also need to join the samba group.

Samba is a pipe of sorts… those settings only apply to files created using that pipe.

SSH is a different pipe, with different configuration. I think you need to modify the umask of the user connecting via ssh and/or add them to a samba group.

Did you check ownership and permissions for .profile?

Sorry for the time lag, I imagine you are a bit short on time at the moment, but I found “The Second Book of Go” covered a wide variety of concepts once I had a dozen or so games under my belt. HTH