Made some progress while on the flight back from SambaXP - mode on mkdir now mostly works. Same problem we talked about before with files - the 'w' permission on group and other is being masked off (as are the sticky/setuid/setgid) drwx------ 2 testuser testuser 4096 Jun 8 04:28 0700dir drwxr----- 2 testuser testuser 4096 Jun 8 04:28 0740dir drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser testuser 4096 Jun 8 04:28 0755dir drwx------ 2 testuser testuser 4096 Jun 8 04:28 07700dir drwxr-x--- 2 testuser testuser 4096 Jun 8 04:28 0770dir drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser testuser 4096 Jun 8 04:28 0777dir The optimized posix mkdir path needs some additional work to populate the returned information into the inode - when I get that done will post this patch -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html