I'm using Redhat 7.3 as a windows NT domain controller. I have a slave drive set up for public access on the network. I also have all my users in a group called ASYS. The problem I'm having is that when any user creates a file on the public drive, other users have read-only access to the file. When I look at the file properties, it shows that the group, ASYS, does not have write permissions on the file. How can I configure things so that my group has write access to files when they are created?

Is this a "public" network drive a samba share?

assuming ure using samba, check the smb.conf for "create file mask" or "file create mask" (i dont remember the exact name) and set it to 775 for the selected dirs man smb.conf hth

YOU FIXED IT! Yes it is a samba share, and changing the permissions to 775 did the trick. Thanks for taking the time to help me out, 'cause it saved my butt. Here's what I did for all you others who may have this problem. I opened /etc/samba/smb.conf and looked for the section called Public. I then added the following lines under Public: create mode = 775 directory mode = 775 That's it. Then I restarted samba and everything is now fine.