Does samba provide a SUID directive so that the SUID only is applied to files created by the user accessing the share and not me if I decide to create a file while connected via ssh as root.

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...

ITworld.com – If you have tried to give away any files lately on any of your Unix systems (i.e., without first becoming root), you may have been surprised to learn that you can’t. On most Unix systems ...