I have a current problem with a samba server. When files are created a shared disk, the permissions on the file are rw-r-----. This is fine for the owner of the file, but the file is shared and needs to be writable by other users in the same group as the owner I have looked on the web and have come across the following arguments that can be used in the smb.conf file. create mask create mode force create mode and similar ones for directories. Does anyone have any experience setting octal permission bits for these arguments, If so can anyone suggest the bits so that I can have files created with permissions rw-rw-rw-, and directories readable and writable by users in the same group, rwxrwxr-x. Any suggestions or advice will be greatly appreciated Peter