here is what i want to do with samba : I have a samba server with some shares onto apps (like netscape, ...) my users are divided in groups (they are students and consider one group correspond to one study year). I want to be able : 1?) to give or not give acces to shares following groups... for example : first year can not access netscape, but second can 2?) to be able to modify this acces : be able to cut the access to an application online... I thought to do it playing with unix rights and symlinks... is there another way to do it in samba? for example : is it possible to reload only a part of the configuration without restarting samba entirely? if yes, a solution is to modify the list of valid users including or not the group (with @ character) so anybody as ideas? ThanXXX =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michel APPLAINCOURT | E-mail : michel.applaincourt@umh.ac.be Computer Sciences Assistant | Phone : 32 65 373498 Universite de Mons-Hainaut | Fax : 32 65 373318 [Sad...But True] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-