Hello all, We're having some odd issues with samba and MS Word (And presumable the rest of the office suite, but I haven't checked) running on NT 4.0 sp3. MS Word doesn't seem to obey the umask settings: create mask = 0775 directory mask = 0775 When a new word document is created, it is given -rwxrw-r-instead of the -rwxrwxr-x I'm expecting. I'm not sure whats happening there. Here's the weird part... Some times word considers documents Read Only, even though they own the file in Unix, and its mode is 0664. It doesn't seem to make any sense. When go into the command line and chmod 775 the file, it works fine. And, on top of that, it usually happens to the same people, and I have a difficult time replicating the problem with any one else. The 664 mode should be fine, for most things from a unix perspective, but for some reason, Word/NT doesn't like it. The most common problem is the secretary will open the "bosses" file and make some changes. Since they're both in the same unix group, and the RW permission for the group is set, there shouldn't be a problem. After making changes, the secretary tries to save and it they get a permissions error. If I check the mode of the file, its 764 (rwxrw-r--) From the unix shell, they can interact with each others data via the group permission just fine. So, has anyone else seen this kind of behavior, and is there a solution? We're running Solaris 2.6 with samba-1.9.18p10 compiled with GCC 2.8.1. -- Rich Whiffen Investment Company Institute 1401 H street NW Washington, DC 20005 PH:(202) 326 - 5992 FX:(202) 218 - 3565 whiffen@ici.org <mailto:whiffen@ici.org> http://www.ici.org <http://www.ici.org>