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Hello everyone. I've been doing this with samba options for a while, but now that more people are logging directly into the server and/or using Linux it has become more of an issue. Quite simply, I've got a shared directory which everyone can use and write to. Through my research on this some time ago I found that I can set an 'inherit group' attrib by using SetGID on the dirs. Out of interest, what does setUID on a dir do? I've done some tests, but haven't noticed any difference. Anyway, if a user sets their umask to 002, it seems that all files become group writable, no matter what the permissions of the parent dir are. This isn't really desirable. So, what I'm looking for is some way of forcing the permissions of files created in the shared dir to be group writable. What is the conventional way of handling group write-ability for shared dirs? They can't seriously expect people to manually chmod all created files. I'm surprised google hasn't been very helpful on this one. Maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong. Thanks in advance Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html