I have a linux server already up and running. I'm trying to access it through a win2k box. I can access my linux home directory, as well as a public directory i created initially. However, i'm trying to play with the permissions to make sure i have everything set correctly and dont have more permissions then i need. So I created another directory called test. I did chown smbuser.smb test , and i also did chmod 2777 test. But when i open my network neighborhood, i dont see it. And i tried accessing it directly by typing in the path and it says it cant find it. Currently, i can access the public directory and my linux home directory. If i remove myself from the smb group, i can still see the public directory inside network neigborhood, but i cant access it. However, nothing i do seems to give me access to the test directory. Can anyone tell me what i might be doing wrong? What are the steps to making a new directory and allowing all samba users access to it? Or for that matter, how can i give all samba users the same access permissions they would have as if they were logged into the shell? I also tried stopping and start smb but it didnt have any effect I could see. thanks