<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><tt>> Thank you.......i have tried it...but no effect..... No effect? Did you unmount and remount or reboot? Could you give us the output of the "mount" command please? Is the user in question a mamber of the group "users"? -- no effect means that it still ro mode, i only can copy/paste/remove by using sudo from terminal and actually...before i mounted....x folder is like below oedha@The-ELF:/media$ ls -l total 24 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-01-15 00:23 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-15 00:23 cdrom0 drwxrwx--- 1 root plugdev 8192 2008-01-22 10:57 sda1 drwxrwx--- 1 root plugdev 8192 2008-01-22 15:08 sda2 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-01-21 18:06 x but after i mount like what you suggested: ( i changed gid=root and uid=root, and modified with some others like users, oedha and also i tried umask=007 and 000, smbfs and cifs) the mount process has no error but the x folder was changed to oedha@The-ELF:/media$ ls -l total 24 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-01-15 00:23 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-15 00:23 cdrom0 drwxrwx--- 1 root plugdev 8192 2008-01-22 10:57 sda1 drwxrwx--- 1 root plugdev 8192 2008-01-22 15:08 sda2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-21 18:06 x it can't cahnge after that.....when i unmounted it.....the x will be back to drwxrwxrwx !! i kept doing mount, remount,reboot...hehehe > should i install cifs package ? No, both smbfs and cifs are available as modules in the default kernel. yes.....i have smbfs...and i added all samba related packages....but still....ro is there something that i missed ? i also attached the smb.conf of the student file server thanks; ~E~ </tt></tt></pre><div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> More new features than ever. Check out the new <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=aimcmp00050000000001" target="_blank">AIM(R) Mail</a>! </div>