Hi, I currently use Samba server as a PDC on a centos 3.5 box for a bunch of XP clients which works perfectly.</centos plug> I want to mount a share on a NAS box we have kicking about and use that share to put all the users home dirs in. Sadly my NAS box is a Windows 2003 server appliance (although, to be fair - it does the job). So I create a share on the NAS box, create a user on the Samba server who I then assign write permissions on the newly created share (yes, the NAS is a domain member) and then put the NAS share's details into the Samba server's /etc/fstab like so: \\nasboxen\newshare /mnt/userhomes smbfs auto,credentials=/etc/samba/afile 0 0 mount -a /mnt/syd01-test/ and it mounts perfectly: [root at lemon mnt]# mount [snip] //nasboxen/newshare on /mnt/userhomes type smbfs (0) Now the problem comes when I want to put a userdir in there because when I try and set the ownership: [root at lemon mnt]# chown nick testing chown: changing ownership of `testing': Operation not permitted I presume this is because it's a smb filesystem and it doesn't support unix ownership flags. So the question is... can it be done? Cheers, Nick