alright now I have added the line umask=555 which when i mount the drive it now comes up with these permissions.

squeegy@mars:/mnt$ ls -la
total 38
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Dec 10 12:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec 9 13:00 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 2002 auto
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 4 14:18 bootfloppy
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Dec 31 1969 cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 9 07:08 floppy -> /mnt/auto/floppy
drwx------ 1 root root 8192 Dec 10 18:16 hda1
drwx-w-r-- 1 root root 114688 Dec 10 18:46 hdb1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 07:23 hdc5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 10 12:44 jupiter
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 4 14:19 miniroot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 30 2001 test
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 07:31 wind


I just think it needs a little more tweaking and it'll be there. What umask should i use ?