I upgraded from my desktop from Mandrake 10.1 to Mandriva 2006 recently. It went pretty well, but I am having some issues connecting to samba shares on my Mandrake 10.1-based server. The shares worked fine under 10.1, but now I can't get them to mount with read-write permission. I'm assuming this is a problem related only to the mdrva 2006 client -- I haven't changed a thing on the server and my Windows desktops have no problems with these shares. With the shares unmounted, I can set permissions at the mount points to 775 (rwxrwxr-x) owned by me (madams). Once I mount the shares, they immediately revert to 755 (rwxr-xr-x) owned by root. The logs appear to be silent on this. Just for your reference here is the fstab line for mounting the shares in question: ===========//shuttle/madams /mnt/shuttle/madams smbfs credentials=/home/madams/.samba 0 0 //shuttle/server /mnt/shuttle/server smbfs credentials=/home/madams/.samba 0 0 //shuttle/super /mnt/shuttle/super smbfs credentials=/home/madams/.samba 0 0 ============ Incidentally, the same thing happens when I mount the shares manually. However, it appears that I can dismount, then mount the shares with LinNeighborhood and they function more or less correctly correctly (can't get the "execute" bit to set on files in subdirectories). That's okay for a workaround, but I'd really like to get this sorted out and working like it's supposed to from boot. Here is the code from the samba server that defines the mounts: ===========[homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes [server] create mask = 0775 comment = Public Stuff path = /share public = yes writable = yes read only = no valid users = madams,sparkles,alex # write list = @users [super] create mask = 0775 comment = Large share on Shuttle Server valid users = madams,sparkles,alex printable = no writable = yes public = yes path = /mnt/super =========== -- Mark E. Adams http://adamslan.shyper.com Random Musing: "I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'" -- Robert G. Ingersoll