Hello all. In dire need of help. Samba is a acting as a member server to NT4 domain and using winbind to grab the users. I would like to achieve the following for users personal drives: +make them accessible by the owner (the user) +make them accessible by the Admin group. +make them NOT accessible by the rest of the regular "users" *note ALL users are members of "users". Administrators are a member of "Admins" and "Users" When permissions are set to the following: drwxrwx--- 2 festival+test festival+users 4096 Jul 4 10:15 test the shares are accessible by the owner "Test" and by all "users" (everyone). If I change the group to "festival+admins" drwxrwx--- 2 festival+test festival+admins" 4096 Jul 4 10:15 test Only the OWNER can get in. Admins CANT Regardless of the file owner - id like Admins to be able to get into every the share. Here is the config of the share question [Personal] path = /shares/personal valid users = @"festival+admins", @"festival+users" browseable = no writeable = yes directory security mask = 2770 directory mask = 2770 read only = no security mask = 2770 create mask = 2770 I added "users" to the valid users list since the directory owners are in that group by default. I thought if I removed that group - then everyone would lose access to their shares. Is Valid users = a nessesary option? Could access be strictly controlled by the UNIX permissions? In that case I think drwxrwx--- 2 festival+test festival+admins" 4096 Jul 4 10:15 test would work. Thanks! . NET Intranet System Instant integrated intranet. Download free 30 day fully functional demo. Complete intranet software package with 30 applications "out of the box". http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=bf327f7604235d27bf6a9ace3a87f325 -- Powered by Outblaze