Hai All, My Problem is Managing File permission in Samba Share... Through Windows XP... Details.... I am having a Samba File server that managing 6 TB Volume, i divided it to 6 equal Volumes... so each share is.. 1 TB, and assigned each volume for different Projects... in each projects more then 500 Ppls are working... About the servers performance.. and load balancing... everything is working fine.. with me.... My problem is Setting the permission only... in each project... not all but many peoples need.. full permission.. So in group wise.. i assigned it to for particular folders here is my problems starts.... while the ppl who having full permission, create a folder or file.. the ownership comes as in their name only... so none other cant open it... Till i change the ownership.. to "domain administrator" in Linux using chown command and reset the permissions from Windows... Help me if anyone have the idea to overcome this situation.. i cant use.... "force user =" option... because.. that giving the same access to all users... My Samba servers and all WindowsXP Clients are Authenticating through Windows 2003 ADS samba version samba-3.0.14a-1 is recompiled with "--with-acl-support" is running in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-11.EL) Here is my smb.conf configuration file... #================ Global Settings ==================# [global] workgroup = MYDOMAIN server string = Samba Server log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 security = ads encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no #============== Share Definitions ==================# #ldap idmap suffix = ou=emplist,dc=dqe,dc=com password server = 172.16.20.200 realm = MYDOMAIN.COM idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 template shell = /bin/bash template homedir = /home/%D/%U allow trusted domains = no idmap backend = idmap_rid:DQE=16777216-33554431 winbind use default domain = yes [vol01] path = /vol01_1000 writable = yes public = yes nt acl support = yes create mask = 0755 security mask = 0755 inherit permissions = yes inherit acls = yes force security mode = 0 directory security mask = 0777 force directory security mode = 0 #=====================================================# Please Share Your knowledge to solve this problem... Thank You in Advance, Regards, Jerrynikki.