Thanks to all of the excellent help here on the list, I have gotten my samba servers all up and running. I need some guidance on how to properly configure the permissions / Users/ Groups so that things can be accessed by those who need to, and not by others. Here are the needs as I see them: Each Authenticated Domain User should have a private folder on the /homes share that only they (and the administrator) can access A teachers share: this share should be accessable by the teachers (Active Directory group Teachers) but not by the students -- Designed to serve as a file exchange point A Public share with Read permissions to everyone, but only specific users (Administrator, Root, and timholmes) have write access. A place to stash documents that many people might need, but should not be changed except by authorized people I have tried creating a document in a wide open share (root/root 777) to see what the username is that it is created with, and it showed as MCASCHOOL\timholmes (my account) for the owner and MCASCHOOL\Domain Users (one of several groups I am in) as the group. When I tried to chown my home folder to that setting, it does not recognize the user or group. I am in the process of working through the SAMBA HOW-TO book, but as yet have not hit the solution. Thanks for all your help TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Webmaster / Science Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14
