Hi, Running 3.0.28-0.2-1625-SUSE-CODE10, if in /etc/samba/smb.conf the "hide dot files" parameter is set to "No" then on the client I see $ touch hi touch: cannot touch `hi': Permission denied $ ls -alh total 4.0K drwxrwxr-x 10 500 users 0 2010-05-20 14:27 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4.0K 2010-05-18 16:36 .. ... -rw-r----- 1 root users 0 2010-05-20 14:27 hi ... $ rm hi rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `hi'? yes $ ls hi ls: cannot access hi: No such file or directory It does not seem the permissions of the directory matter, the files created are always owned by root despite the creating process saying "permission denied." And they are always deletable. No client-side options made any difference until we stumbled upon "hide dot files = Yes" which worked, and now files are created correctly with proper permissions. cheers, stephan PS: the entry in smb.conf [xxx] inherit acls = Yes path = /xxx read only = No valid users = .... browseable = Yes writeable = yes hide dot files = Yes inherit permissions = Yes admin users = xxx create mask = 660