I have been through the ringer on this one and need some specific guidance on diagnosing and "healing" my mistake. I have successfully assigned my server to the domain and can browse to the server and its shares via explorer. However, I can't create directories or save files from windows on my samba shares. I've checked the directory permissions and they all have read/write/execute (for the time being.) What would cause me to have read-only permissions on these files? I need a better understanding of "whose" in control as it pertains to permissions on a linux share. I'm running Fedora Core 1 with all of the latest updates vi up2date. # testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[html]" Loaded services file OK. 'winbind separator = +' might cause problems with group membership. Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_MEMBER Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MYDOMAIN realm = MYDOMAIN.COM server string = internal services server security = ADS password server = PDC.MYDOMAIN.COM log level = 5 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 idmap uid = 15000-20000 idmap gid = 15000-20000 template shell = /bin/bash winbind separator = + winbind enable local accounts = No winbind use default domain = Yes [html] path = /var/www/html read only = No create mask = 0644