Thank you all for the store of knowledge. I do have a follow up question about Rick's suggestion concerning ownership of the "Apache" directories. What is a good alternative? If they are "root", can Apache access them? Is that even good? Suggestions welcomed... Todd Todd Cary wrote: > My www directory is owned by "apache" and the group is "todd" and the > permissions are 775. > > My Windows computers use Samba and they log into Linux with "todd". > > Under the www directory there are various directories which may have a > group belonging to a user e.g. "viewpoint". Using this example, there > is a directory under www (acutally called httpd), "viewpoint" that is > owned by "apache" and is a member of the "viewpoint" group. "todd" is > also a member of the "viewpoint" group. > > Now this is the problem I do not know how to correct: if "todd" using > Samba creates a directory in "viewpoint", the owner and group is > "todd" with 755 permissions. Now if the "viewpoint" user tries to > write to the directory, he does not have adequate permissions. > > Maybe I have not setup the owners and groups correctly. maybe there > is something I need to do with how Samba interacts with the server. > > Any suggestions will be appreciated... > > Todd > -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523