Hello, I've been trying to figure this out for some time and can't quite nail it down, despite searching the internet, and a couple of samba books. Here goes: I'm running "Version 3.4.3-3.3.1-2341-SUSE-SL11.2" of Samba on OpenSUSE 11.2. Here are some relevant excerpts from my smb.conf file: [global] ... security = ADS ... winbind separator = + ... log level = 2 ... [xdrives] comment = X Drive Repository path = /share/samba/domain/home browseable = yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 valid users = @OURDOMAIN+smb (this is a group) inherit acls = no hide unreadable = no read only = no I have AD authentication running via winbind, and the "Kerberos" element is working also. So, "wbinfo -g" produces all groups in the same format as entered in this share: " OURDOMAIN+Administrators ... OURDOMAIN+smb " The filesystem "path =" directory has been chown'd to my name+that domain group(of which I am a member). "chown OURDOMAIN+me:OURDOMAIN+smb" Also, I "chmodded" it to 0777 for testing. Yet... *ARGH!* When I try accessing this share from windows "Run" or Konqueror on another linux, I get this on the server: tail /var/log/samba/log.smbd "... [2010/06/07 09:41:37, 2] auth/auth.c:310(check_ntlm_password) check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [me] -> [me] -> [OURDOMAIN+me] succeeded [2010/06/07 09:41:37, 0] smbd/service.c:1009(make_connection_snum) '/share/samba/domain/home' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [xdrives] Error was Permission denied ..." Copy pasting the entry ?'/share/samba/domain/home'? right out of the above: ServerName:~ # ls -lah /share/samba/domain/home total 512 drwxrwxrwx 23 OURDOMAIN+me OURDOMAIN+smb 584 Jun 3 10:06 . I earlier changed the mountpoint of this partition to /share as /srv wasn't working. Just now, I put in "path = /home" as a reality check, and remotely accessed \\<server.ip>\<folder>, and it succeeded. I only received an error message when trying to create a new folder. What am I missing? Sincere thanks, Ben -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Peculiar-permission-denied-error.-tp28806395p28806395.html Sent from the Samba - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.