Thanks for the fast reply.

I'm not having any direct problems. It was on a worksheet i had to do in an internet services admin module earlier today and it had some questions throughout to make you think, but i just could not work that one out. I asked the guy running it and he could not remember.

:S

As far as i can think if you let a user or a group have access to the directory on the server then all the "share" permissions can do is act as another filter that can allow remote only filtering of who can do what. But that is only a guess.