james pifer rluobrienpifercom 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 really dont see anything samba change either help appreciated thanks james fri 08 aug 2008 035011 0500 opensuse rights mounted drives