Craig White wrote: > no matter how many lists you ask or how many different ways you want to > keep asking the question, your problem is always Windows permissions are > blocking you. This is not a Linux question. If you don't have > permissions to mount a share or descend into a subdirectory, your > problem lies with Windows permissions. Well, I didn't know originally if it was a Linux or Windows problem. I have now come to the same conclusion as you, that it is a Windows problem. The reason I suspected Linux was that BackupPC used to work perfectly backing up this Windows XP machine, but then ceased to, although I did not remember making any big change on the Windows machine (which I don't actually use), whereas of course I have made a billion updates on the CentOS machine. But I think I may be mistaken; I suspect that it stopped working when I installed SP3 (which I had forgotten about). Anyway BackupPC is now working fine again on the Windows machine. As to your suggestion that I asked the question on too many lists, there were only 3: this list (as my samba server is running under CentOS), the Fedora list because I have found that one is more likely to get helpful responses there than anywhere else, and the samba list because it was a Samba problem. > There's no guarantee that even if you are the > administrator that you can access a share, folder or file. Windows has a > fairly sophisticated ACL system and you would probably be better served > learning it than asking so many lists the same questions. Well, I did actually get the vital information after asking the question several times - File and Folder ownership was not showing up. The solution was: ---------------------------------------------- IF you don't see a Security tab, go to Start->My Computer, then click Tools->Folder Options in the top of the resultant dialog box. Click the "View" tab, scroll to the bottom of the "Advanced Settings", and turn off "Use simple file sharing". ---------------------------------------------- I did actually google briefly for "NTFS Permissions" but decided life was too short to get into what seemed an absurdly complicated issue. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland