Good evening, We are assigning permissions to a samba share (see below) via windows. When we apply the changed permissions, the owning user/group looses all access. Has anyone experienced this before? We have another server setup and it works correctly. Thanks. [publicweb] path = /apps/publicweb read only = no browseable = no guest ok = no valid users = @DOMAIN\PubWeb_Editors public = no hide unreadable = yes inherit acls = yes inherit permissions = yes create mask = 6770 force create mode = 6770 security mask = 000 force security mode = 6770 force directory mode = 6770 directory mask = 6770 force create group = libwebuser directory security mask = 000 ; force directory security mode = 770 admin users = @DOMAIN\admins --Dale --------------------------------------- Dale Poulter Automation Coordinator Library Information Technology Services Vanderbilt University Suite 700 110 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37240 (615)343-5388 (615)343-8834 (fax) (615)207-9705 (cell) dale.poulter at vanderbilt.edu<mailto:dale.poulter at vanderbilt.edu>