Dear, i'm a newbie to this mailinglist, so please excuse if i donany mistakes. my question is the following: emvironment: Kernel 2.2.16-22enterprise on RedHat Linux 7.0 SambaVersion: samba-2.0.7-21ssl i installed the software and configured differnet shares. All works very well with the users home-shares and the 2 public-shares i created. also i created different shares depending on the groups of the users. If i mount a share (from linux-client) with an valid username (which is also a member of the group which own the share) the hole mount-point on the linux-client gets invisible. e.g when i mount the share smbmount //server/mygroupshare /mnt/my-groupshare im not able to see the mount-point on the clients local-harddisk any more the config for this share is: first the template ;) [template] comment = Template Service for COPY(S) path = /var/tmp browseable = no public = no printable = no writeable = yes create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0770 force create mode = 0660 force directory mode = 0770 hide files = /.*/*.php*/*.inc/*.lib/ veto files = /.*/*.php*/*.inc/*.lib/ and then the share itself [TeamShare] copy = template comment = MY TEAMSHARE path = /home/TeamShare browseable = yes write list = @team force group = +team another effect which does occur on the same share on a windows client is, the client can mount the share (net use x: \\servername\share-name\ ) and the client can browse the networkdrive (e.g. x:\) with it's explorer, but if he wants to open a file directly from within an application (e.g. MS-Word or so with the File-Open-Menue ) the client get a message which tells him that he has unsufficient permission to this networkdrive the linux-permissions i think are ok, the directroy-owner is root, the group-owners are the teams (one dir for each tema) , like this drwxrwx--- 6 root team 4096 Mar 9 12:06 TeamShare all users (which mount the share) are members of the group team. As i explained the problem is not mounting the share, my problem is that the share cannot be displayed correctly on the linux-mountpoint, resp. cannot be used from within some windows-application (but can mounted on windows correctly). The Problem occures only on Windows NT- and W2K-clients, there are no problems on Win9x-clients (i think the ignore all permissions). Can someone help to solve this problem? this will be very nice ;) best regards uwe