Lets suppose you have /home/public to be accessed by anyone on your network:
You _must_ have /home/public set to nobody.nogroup (recursively huh :) # ll /home/public/ -d drwxrwxrwx 8 nobody nogroup 4096 Dec 16 20:26 /home/public/ and in smb.conf: [public] path=/home/public browseable=Yes writeable=Yes guest ok=yes force user=nobody comment=Common share This should work fine, works for me in 2.2.3a (Debian stable) My 2 cts -- Jean-Paul ARGUDO -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba