<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_744dc13f-216c-4cf7-9553-6cbb50028d55" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>You had unmounted it first, right? If not, try again, but unmount it first. -- yup.....even i restarted it That's quite strange. The file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 should, if I understand correctly, set the permissions to be rwxrwxr-x which would allow members of users to write files. Directories seem to be rwxr-xr-x and files seem to vary a little. -- i also amaze with the result of the mounting statement. Ah. Looking at the manpage for mount.cifs (which is what you're using with CIFS), you might need to add the option noperms. //192.168.1.100/shared /media/x cifs //rw,uid=root,gid=users,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775,noperm 0 0 -- i did....and why...why it still can not work based on the theory ??? If you have ldap or nis set up so that the server and clients have corresponding users, it probably wouldn't make sense to do this but it sounds like you probably don't. -- i didnt set those.....but the server is running Clarkconnect 3.2 and shared the /home/shared as public shared Sorry.....i didnt mean to piss you all off.... ~E~ -- edubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a> </tt></pre> </div>  <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>