Okay, I'm making some progress. I set a umask=0002 and I am now able to create a directory on the zip drive. However, if I create a file with KDE (for example, right clicking in the Zip window and choosing new -> text file) it creates the text file but then gives me an error saying "Could not change permissions for /media/zip/Text File". I'm now convinced this is all just a matter of setting the correct umask. The problem now being that I don't know what the correct umask would be that would actually allow me to change permissions of items on the Zip drive. If anyone who is more familiar with umask could help from here I'd appreciate in. I've looked in my books and I'm digging through Google results right now but I'm not finding any useful information. It actually appears that most people are using the umask=0002 line for their zip drives. Thanks, Vince