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.. on the server (server1), [samba] comment = samba share path = /samba/ read only = No valid users = @samba write list = @samba force group = +samba create mask = 0770 browseable = yes [root at server1 ~]# grep samba /etc/group samba:x:6666:user2,user3 [root at server1 ~]# id user2 uid=2010(user2) gid=2010(user2) groups=2010(user2),6666(samba) on the client (server2), [root at server2 ~]# grep samba /etc/group samba:x:6666:user2,user3 [user2 at server2 samba]$ pwd /mnt/samba [user2 at server2 samba]$ df -h ./ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on //rhce1/samba 11G 4.5G 5.8G 44% /mnt/samba [user2 at server2 samba]$ touch file [user2 at server2 samba]$ ls -al file -rw-rw----. 1 *user3* samba 0 May 22 15:52 file [user2 at server2 samba]$ id uid=2010(user2) gid=2010(user2) groups=2010(user2),6666(samba) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 [user2 at server2 samba]$ any ideas? regards, Jason