hello list, I just did: chown -R thecreator:thecreator /ftp/pub and set perms as follows chmod -R ug+rwx /ftp/pub chmod -R o-rwx /ftp/pub. ls -l confirms this. When I do su I get: /ftp/pub/.bashrc: permission denied. Also, samba won't go in to that folder, windows just freezes. Any ideas? Help would be appriciated. Thanks,