I am trying to backup a Windows XP Pro machine with BackupPC running on a Fedora-11 machine. Let me say at once that I know very little about Windows XP; the machine I want to backup belongs to a relative who does not run Linux. The problem seems to lie with reading permission on my Windows client. Thus I can sudo mount -t cifs harriet:C /mnt/win and can list the files /mnt/win . But I get refused permission to read most of them, eg ------------------------------------- [root at helen tim]# cd /mnt/win [root at helen win]# cd Documents\ and\ Settings/ [root at helen Documents and Settings]# ls tim ls: reading directory tim: Permission denied ------------------------------------- Is there a document that explains in simple language how to change Windows permissions explicitly for samba? Any suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland