You do not need to use root and the root password to authenticate to the XP box (even though you must be root (typically) to mount the smb filesystem). You can use -U administrator%administratorpassword or any user that has full network access to that share. I think the smb filesystems attributes will controlled by 'mount' options, not the permissions on the directory mount point. I wish I had a XP machine (spit) so I could tell you exactly what to do, but I do not. >>> dcoats at heritagemail.org 04/15/03 10:41AM >>> The adventure continues... I created a user for root on my XP machine(everyone responds with horror at the lack of security - It is in a locked room). Now as root I can smbmount on to my XP machine. I can see and access the files in the mounted directory. And there was much rejoicing! I can even unmount it without permission problems. What I still can't do is write to it...I set the permissions for the directory on the server side to 775. On the XP side they are set to Allow Full Control. What else might still need to be changed? Doug _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list