Hye i runnning Samba 2.2.1a on RedHat 7.2. If i access a shre with group-permissions from XP i get an error-message which tolds me that this share does not exist or is renamed. From Win2K i can access the share from explorer but if i try to open a MS-Office document from the "File Open" Box i receive a nearly the same message. Other shares (publics and user homedirectories) works well. here an example for an share from my smb.conf: [template] comment = my service template path = /var/tmp browseable = no public = no printable = yes 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 [Developer] copy = template comment = Developer path =/var/Developer browseable = yes writelist = @develop force group = +develop I found no soulution in various documents which helps me to solve this problem. -- best regards Uwe Melcher