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....conf file the equivalates root to administrator, so i thought that having the owner as root was acceptable, but i am guessing that the smbusers file only maps in one direction, from Unix ->Windows and not Windows -> Unix, because the solution was: #chown "MRPARTYKA/Administrator" /ftprooot Once i did this, i was able to change the ACL, all i wanted. Hope this saves someone some effort down the line. Thanks for the help i got from members of this list!