I am trying to make a backup file server for the NT Server 4 that I am currently using and am getting stung by permissions. I am currently tying to use robocopy to copy from the NT machine to the samba machine. Is there a good way t okeep the permissions on the files directories translated? I have looked at the Win32::Perms perl module and some scripts that use it. but that seems very cumbersome. Dave Waller