Looking at other questions, I've done the following: NOTE: MEDIA is a folder I'm looking to set up so that all files/folders added have the same user/group as the parent folder. chmod g+s MEDIA setfacl -R -d -m g::rwx MEDIA setfacl -R -d -m o::rwx MEDIA . MEDIA UserA GroupA MEDIA/NewFolder UserA UserA <BAD MEDIA/NewFolder UserA GroupA <GOOD If I create a subfolder whilst logged in as user 'UserA' that folder is owned by UserA:GroupA with [rwxrwxrwx] permissions (as intended). All Good! If I login as UserB, the new folder becomes part of UserB:UserB with [rwxr-xr-x]. If I login from a different machine via a mounted drive in KDE (UserB) the folder becomes part of UserA:UserA with [rwxr-xr-x]. Now both UserA and UserB are part of GroupA, where am I going wrong. I want all users in GroupA to have RWX permissions and I want all files/folders created by users in GroupA to have the same user/group as the parent folder, why does this only happen with the owner on the machine itself. getfacl MEDIA/ returns # file: MEDIA/ # owner: UserA # group: GroupA # flags: -s- user::rwx group::rwx other::rwx default:user::rwx default:group::rwx default:other::rwx