Hi. I'm trying to get our office staff sharing files. Lubuntu 14.04 DC (palmera) also serving shares. There is a Lubuntu 14.04 ws (guadalest) joined to this domain. xp clients in the same domain are working as expected. On Lubuntu, we can only mount folders if the parent folder is world 'enterable': [shared] path = /home/shared/ read only = No getfacl /home/shared/ # file: shared/ # owner: root # group: staff2 user::rwx group::r-x other::--- getfacl /home/shared/stuff # file: stuff # owner: root # group: domain\040users # flags: -s- user::rwx group::rwx other::r-x autofs is running on the client and this share is active: Mount point: /home/shared source(s): instance type(s): sss map: auto.shared * | -fstype=cifs,sec=krb5,username=cifsuser,multiuser ://palmera/shared/& julie is a domain user: getent passwd julie julie:*:3000020:20513:julie:/home/users/julie:/bin/bash groups julie julie : domain users staff2 getent group staff2 staff2:*:21107:julie However, attempting to enter /home/shared/stuff cd /home/shared/stuff bash: cd: /home/shared/stuff: No such file or directory she can enter /home/shared fine she can also enter is /home/shared is 0755: julie at guadalest:/home/shared$ cd ~ julie at guadalest:~$ cd /home/shared/stuff julie at guadalest:/home/shared/stuff$ julie can work as expected and produce group rw files on an xp ws. summary: unless the parent share is world 'enterable', we cannot mount anything below it. This works as expected under smbd. Can anyone verify this to be a feature of the DC file server? Any secure workaround? We want only members of the group staff2 to be able to get into shared and below. Is cifs-utils OK on Ubuntu? Cheers, Steve