<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.8.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi I am using Ubuntu 5.10. When I plug in my USB Stick (Kingston 256MB), it gets mounted and now we can cut/copy/paste files on and off it. But the problem is that when I copy file form my pc to usb stick it changes it file permission. e.g. I copied a file from my desktop file permission for that was 644 and after it got copied to usb stick, on usb stick its file permission were 700, when I copied a file carrying file permission 777 after it got copied to usb stick its file permission changed to 744. Why so happens, kindly help. <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Thanks & regards Ashwani Jain Systems Administrator GISIL, 10th Floor, Tower A Signature Towers South City 1 Gurgaon 121001 Haryana, INDIA Handphone: +91-9811084143 Fax : +91-124-5071700 Office: +91-124-5071600 ext 202 WEB: <A HREF="http://www.gisil.com">http://www.gisil.com</A> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>