Hi, I'm using Samba 2.2.8a as PDC + file server in a LAN containing many Win2000 Pro clients and one WinXP Pro client. In a share I have some directories which are set to read-only by a script on the Linux side, but any user can open up the folder properties on the Windows client and remove the read-only attribute; this is ok, it's what I want, and works perfectly on Win2000 clients. On the WinXP client, instead, when opening the properties window the checkmark near the read-only attribute is shown in grey; if the user removes it and clicks on OK nothing happens, the attribute is not changed. The same user, when accessing to the share using a Win2000 client, has no problems. Setting and unsetting the read-only attribute on _files_ works fine, also on WinXP. Setting it on directories does not work, if I recall correctly, neither on Win2000 nor on WinXP. But UNSETTING it on directories works fine on Win2000, while it doesn't work on WinXP. This is an important problem for me, and I opened up a bug report some days go (Bugzilla Bug 796), but didn't hear any comments yet. So I'll ask here: is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Any workarounds? Thanks a lot. -- Ciao, Marco. ..."Refugee", Refugee 1974