Our site is using AFS for all major filesharing, and we are (still starting to) use Samba as the access to this filespace from the Wintel world. But I stumbled about the following question: - In AFS the access rights for files (more exactly directories) can be much finer than the standard Unix user-group-world bits. So I can have a large Unix group 'admin', but set different access rights for different AFS defined groups. - I can open up the Unix access bits more and more as necessary, since the AFS rights will restrict the access if necessary, but would it not make sense if Samba would not check the Unix access bits, but simply go ahead and try to read or write, and if this works - fine, otherwise evaluate the return code of the operation? Thanks and regards! Axel _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Axel Tanner IBM Zurich Research Laboratory email: axs@zurich.ibm.com Saumerstr. 4 phone: +41/1/724 82 49 CH-8803 Rueschlikon fax : +41/1/724 89 59 Switzerland http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~axs _______________________________________________________________