Ok. That means you need to look at: man mount and look at using mode=xxxx I bet if you cd to the mount point and type "ls -l" you see: ---------- 1 fren root 11649 Apr 30 05:28 N2pInst.log d--------- 1 fren root 512 Sep 16 1999 Office51/ d--------- 1 fren root 512 Mar 19 06:45 Palm/ d--------- 1 fren root 512 Jan 6 1998 Program Files/ d--------- 1 fren root 512 Sep 16 1999 RECYCLED/ in the columns for permissions. It seems like on Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:47:23PM -0700, Eric scribbled: Orig Msg> I am not using SAMBA, they are windows partitions defined in my fstab file... They Orig Msg> mount, I can read to them, I can create directories on the partitions, but I can't copy Orig Msg> anything over, even as root... Orig Msg> JLF Sends... You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message.