Default Permissions in Shared Folder

Hi,
we quite often need to pull documents back and forth between two systems. We use the shared folder of the account for this purpose.
The issue I am having is that every new folder which the one user creates, is only read-only accessible to the other user. I've set the top folder (shared to read-write for all (wheel, everyone, winkel), but still all new folders get created with R-W for winkel(=the user),R for wheel and R for everyone.
How do I set it so that all new folders get default R-W for everyone?
Thanks

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