After an exhaustive search of samba mailing list args, I saw mention of well... not the problem but another problem, and this lead me to test a couple of things. So I tried attaching to a share on the PDA and sure nuff... it attached correctly and was writeable. So then I did some checks with fmask=0770,dmask=0770 which gave the result that told me the problem: FAT32 doesn't have permissions and NTFS does! Which would make sense seeing The World needed to be Full Access (well actually just RWF). So samba does do authentication, but then mounting a WIN98SE (or any FAT/FAT32) share results in the problem described below. So I changed my share to "The World" "Custom [RWF]" which will do just fine for now. Patrick Nelson wrote: ----------------->>>> Attaching to a Win98SE share. The share is set as: name: test$ users: Administrator Full Access Domain Users Read-Only Lab Group Full Access The World Read-Only I mount the share with: mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator //<sys name>/test$ /mnt/test which presents me with a password, which I enter the (domains) Administrators password, which works and the contents of the share are in /mnt/test. A look at the files shows all files have -rwx------ and all dirs have drwx------, and that the ownership is root:root (and I'm logged in as root). However, I am not able to create or alter anything in the subdir. Unless, I change "The World" to "Full Access", then I can create and alter. What am I doing wrong? -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com