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I have posted several questions now and have ben unsuccessful in getting any responses, so i thought i would take a different tack. I know adjusting permissions on Samba shares, through the Microsoft MMC is possible when you have POSIX ACL support compiled in your kernel. I don't think that level of control is necessary for me and short of recompiling the kernel for that support i have been

...an entry in the /etc/samba/smb.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!