Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a problem that I am having on a share (other than home directory) after upgrading to samba 3.0.14a The situation is this: A share is created Like this [me_office] browsable = no comment = ME Front Office valid users = @me_front force group = mefront create mode = 0775 directory mode =0775 read only = no writeable = yes path = /home/mestaff/me_front_office the users in the NIS group me_front get access to files and can read write with no problem, however they are unable to overwrite an exisiting file (even if they created it ) so programs like MSword that have auto-backup turend on, just end up making lots of ~tmp files instead of being able to save the file back. I've had to turn of the autobackup feature in word. And everytime they save the file it needs to be given a different file name or the error "access denied" comes up. This does NOT happen if writing to the home share. This samba box is joined to a w2k3 AD The domain its connected to is a child domain where all users are seen from the getent passwd command However getent group returns groups with child domain users but NOT parent domain users in the group (this seems to be broken, thus the use for NIS groups) Any thoughts on what to add to the smb.conf file to fix this? This was working fine until the upgrade to 3.0.14a Thanks in advance James Mauser Computer Coordinator College of Engineering and Computer Science Florida Atlantic University 561-239-2546