Following along on my quest for Windows and Samba harmony it seems to me that because we do not allow "everyone" access to our domain shares but restrict access to a special Windows security group that this might be at the "root" (pardon the pun) of my difficulties. It appears that "everyone" is the group membership that all Linux samba "users" map to by default. So perhaps the answer lies in the smb.conf file and specifically in the entry "force group". Does anyone on the list have experience with using this technique and if so can they comment on it? As it happens our security group name has both spaces and the character "&" in it so if this is going to cause issues I would like to be informed about any group naming limitations as well. Regards, Jim -- James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3