On 05/22/2017 12:57 PM, Jason Welsh wrote: > im trying to set up a shared samba directory for users to use on > centos 7, but whenever I create a file from the samba client to the > samba server, > the owner of the file ends up being the user the share is mounted up as.. That's how SMB works. Connections are user-oriented. Everything done over a given connection is done as the user who authenticated the connection. You probably want NFS if you want to trust the client workstations to identify separate users.