OK, this may be an idiotic question, but here goes: With winbind, I can now share files to NT/PC users who don't have a corresponding UNIX account. However, I haven't figured out the permissions management yet. I was playing with granting explicit write permission for a samba share to an NT user that was not in my UNIX password file. Then I tried granting write permission to anyone in my NT domainusers group. The only way it seemed I could give that user write permission was to open world write permission to the directory on the UNIX side. I didn't seem to be able to manage the permissions from inside the smb.conf file ... Am I missing something here? Perhaps I just don't understand the precedence of the configuration settings such as read only, write list, etc. and what the effective result is when those settings are combined ... Clarification or a pointer to a discussion of this topic would be most appreciated. Thanks, Karen Wieprecht karen.wieprecht@jhuapl.edu