I am using smbfs in /etc/fstab on Debian. The share mounts with no problem but only root can write to it - not the user. The user sharing and the user I want to have access have the same username but not the same userid The user can not write. I am using uid=<username> gid=<username> fmask=777 dmask=777 and most importantly rw The directory is shared from centos (redhat enterprise linux) 4 Everything works fine on windows so I think it is a smbmount/linux client problem. From memory I got round the problem in the past by making sure the user id of the user on both the client and the server was the same. This is not an option on the current setup. The mount point is owned by the user btw. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Tim.