AFP Mount Point Permissions (Solved)

It seems to me that there is a permission shift going instead of "mapping" just a user name from the ReadyNAS to the Mac (I am mounting as user "root" and providing the user "John" to the ReadyNAS.) Something like:

              U   G   O       
NAS   John   RWX RWX RWX   (share root owner/permissions)
        |    ?   ?  /
        |         /
        |       /
Mac   root   RWX --- ---   (mount point owner/permissions after mount)
      root   RWX R-X R-X   (mount point owner/permissions before mount)

The user name mapping is obviously a side-effect of a network based file system so it's irrelevent to this problem. But the fact that the permissions shift from "other" on the NAS to "user" on the host seems to be an issue. I don't know whether this is because OS X behaves per spec and Linux does not, but it is curious, and I still wonder if there is a correct fix.

I'm assuming the ReadyNAS is running netatalk... I haven't dove into that yet to see how it could possibly be configured to reproduce this behavior. Perhaps you guys can add this "feature" to the FAQ.