Hi, I'm fairly new to Linux and samba and I am struggling to understand something. I have created a share called ricos, and added a group named ricos to the samba server. I have set permissions on the directory as follows: drwxrwxr-- root(user) ricos(group). I also have another group called reward on the server. I have set inherit permissions = yes in the smb.conf file. When a user that is part of the group ricos adds a file or folder, the permissions on that folder/file are as follows: drwxrw-r-x username_of_user(user) ricos(group). But when a user from another group adds a file/folder the permissions are like this: drwxrw-r-x username(user) group(group). Where username = the relevant user and group = that user's group. Surely setting inherit permissions = yes should set the file/folder to the group that owned the parent directory? (in this case the group ricos.) I know that samba won't set the user id on a file or folder - all I want it to do is to set the group ownership to that of the parent directory - no matter which user creates a file/folder in the share. I have not set any force create modes or anything like that in the smb.conf file. Could anyone help me to understand what it is that I am not doing or doing wrong? thanks alot Mark Le Noury