Jim, many thanks for your help. I changed the rights of all parent folders and it works! Best regards Bodo -----Original Message----- From: Jim Boutcher [mailto:jimb@novia.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 12:29 AM To: nntpcache-users@suburbia.net Subject: NNTPC: New User - Please help! > 497 setGroupDir(comp.os.linux.networking, personalnews.de.uu.net) failed > where "personalnews.de.uu.net" is the newsgroup server of my ISP. I've run into this before, and it turned out to be a problem with permissions. Make sure whoever the cache is running as has full access to the root of the cache directory. --- Jim Boutcher Novia