sloan njktmsusacom james pifer wrote sounds like guid uid mapping issue samba side probably nfs side different linux distros may assigning different uidguids usernames former rights granted names suitably edited etcfstab smbconf files might help think youre right map windows machines shares using cifs anything want suggestions fixing either ive tried nfs side ive looked man tried setting anongid anonuid affect opensuse machine uid 1000 fedora machine uid 500 theres answer make userids thats standard procedure joe fri 08 aug 2008 005106 0800 opensuse rights mounted drives