Hello, don't know if this is the right place for my elementary questions. But after searching and reading a lot I still have no exhaustive answers for my obscurities: If I connect to a samba share via mount -t cifs //[SERVER]/[SHARE] /[MOUNTPOINT] -o user=[USER] everything I do within /[MOUNTPOINT] I do as user [USER] on [SERVER] independently of that user I'm logged in on the client. If this is correct I don't understand the following: - On server side there is an user `mutetella` which belongs to group `sippe`. - A share `public` is defined via [public] path = /srv/public guest ok = yes browsable = yes write list = @sippe - The path `/srv/public` owns to `root:sippe`. - If `/srv/public` has 770 rights and the client has mounted the share via ``mount -t cifs //[SERVER]/public /[MOUNTPOINT] -o user=mutetella`` on client sied I only have reading access. - If `/srv/public` has 777 rights on client side I have read/write access. Why the path of this share needs world read/write permissions? Thanks for your help! Claus Gaisser