Hello. I have setup samba 3.0.10-1 on my Centos 4 system. I have setup samba to make a share of a FAT32 filesystem. When I want to write to this shared resource from a windows XP machine to change the hidden file attribute, I get the following error: 'access denied'. This happens as soon as I try to copy a hidden file or directory to this shared drive or when I directly change the hidden attribute in the file properties. Does somebody know where this could be coming from ? I have not this problem when I use an ext3 filesystem in place of FAT32. Here is my mounting options for the FAT filesystem: /dev/hdb1 /samba_backups vfat uid=root,gid=samba,umask=007,utf8 0 0 And this is the samba config file: [global] workgroup = MYHOME server string hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. log file = /var/log/samba/smbd.log security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 interfaces = 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 dns proxy = no winbind use default domain = no map to guest = Bad User unix charset = UTF-8 dos charset = UTF-8 display charset = LOCALE [backups] comment = Backup dirs path = /samba valid users = john force user = john create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 public = no writable = yes read only = no printable = no # This allows you to hide the shared path. browseable = no guest ok = yes Thanks for any help. I really don't understand what happens there. Regards, Daniel