I have the samba problems solved thanks to the help of folks on this forum, but I do not have the php umask problems solved. The www directory is /var/www/html and the html directory is owned by apache and is in the apache groups with the following permissions: drwxrwsr-- A sub-driectory, /var/www/html/viewpoints has the same attributes as the html directory, however when php creates a directory within /var/www/html/viewpoints, the permissions are drwxr-sr-x My goal is to have any created directories and files to have 774 permissions. What am I missing? Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com