Hello list, sorry for the question, may be i just read the doc too sloppyily, but i cant find any solution... :( i have a samba 2.2.5 on a RH8.0, and there are many w2k, and w98 clients. now, there is a new winXP client. the clients are _not_ in windows domain, just uses workgroup. in smb.conf all share has these options: directory mask = 0770 directory security mask = 0770 when a user creates a directory, another user see that, and can use it. but, if user creates a new directory from XP, that can uses just that user, 'cause new directory has 0760 permission... the question is: why? thank you: airween