hi, i have a samba 2.2.5 on debian 2.4.19 (i386) (under samba 2.2.4 occurs the same error) my problem is the following: sometimes occurs a very strange error. if i copy files from windows 2000 or from windows xp to one of my shared drive, the samba server removes all rights from the files. it strores the file, sets the owner and group, but nobody has read or write rights.. i think, this is a configuration error, but i can't find it. please help. thank you, ati ps: here is some more info ls -l /home/blabla drwxrws--- 15 root vertrieb 4096 Sep 13 14:25 vertrieb here is the config of the service: [vertrieb] comment = Vertrieb public Ordner path = /home/blabla/vertrieb browseable = yes read only = no writeable = yes create mode = 0660 force create mode = 0660 security mask = 0000 directory mode = 0770 force directory mode = 0770 directory security mask = 0000 force group = vertrieb valid users = @vertrieb case sensitive = yes preserve case = yes default case = lower guest ok = no hide unreadable = yes