I have a XP machine using a xcopy scribe with /r option (over right read only files) to a debain machine via samba Every once in a while a file becomes read only from the windows side. I look at the linux side and it still shows as read, writeable It does not happen often about once a month I can not attrib +r to fix it. The only way to fix it is to login on linux box and chmod the file and rerun the batch How can I fix this issue or have a work around so it does not happen Thanks Frank