Hiya, i have had a HTTP directory tree shared out via SMB on my HTTP development server for a few years with no trouble. recently however various files have started becoming read-only as far as my Win2k machine is concerned. upon ssh-ing into the tree in question i find all the permissions are fairly open and i cannot see why i should have any problem at all. i have attempted chmod-ing in various different ways and restarting samba with mixed results, normally a chmod 775 does the trick. my network is very simple, just an XP laptop, WIN2K workstation a Linux DNS/FW and DHCP server and a fileserver with FreeBSD [the SMB server in question] all i normally use is a workgroup, as i have a substantial firewall and security is not a priority inside. anyone think of anything else that might be causing the problem? /////////////////// smb.conf # Date: 2004/03/10 00:19:32 # Global parameters [global] deadtime = 5 wins server = qube.carmoda.homeunix.org domain master = No create mode = 0755 dns proxy = No encrypt passwords = yes valid users = carmoda,wwwdev,www,@carmoda,@wwwdev,@www,@wheel,@staff writable = yes directory mode = 0755 domain logons = Yes delete veto files = Yes max connections = 25 server string = CARMODAFS01 workgroup = WORKGROUP map system = Yes map hidden = Yes delete readonly = yes log file = /var/log/log.samba netbios name = CARMODAFS01 guest account = guest-share os level = 1 default = homes default case = upper write list = carmoda,wwwdev,www,@carmoda,@wwwdev,@www,@wheel,@staff [public] path = /tmp guest ok = Yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = No [wwwdev] path = /usr/wwwdev comment = Virtual Web Servers HTTP dirs valid users = carmoda,@carmoda,@wwwdev,@www,@staff write list = carmoda,@carmoda,@wwwdev,@www,@staff create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 ////////////////// and the log file