i have a G5 tower that is being used for a fileserver for 3 people as well as a light-use desktop machine. the fileserver clients are a mix of Windows XP Pro and OS 10.3 users. my issue is with the "create mode" in the [global] section of smb.conf. the man pages and all the reference i could find says that if you specify "create mode = 0777" in the global you can facilitate everyone saving files to the share with full access, which is what i want as default, with particular shares' create mode being overwritten in later share sections of the .conf file. the problem is, the files are being written 0700, and i can't seem to change that. can someone give me a copy of the default smb.conf file with just the modifications necessary to allow 0777 permissions as a default setting? thanks in advance! chris --------------------------------- Chris Jensen Vis Dynamics, Inc. e: chris at visdynamics.com p: 616.456.6566x28