I have a 1.9.18p4 Samba server running on an HP-UX 10.20 box. It has been running smooth as silk for almost 2 years now. Just this Monday, users have been experiencing slow file open times (1-3 minutes) when opening Excel files from any of the Samba shares. This problem does not occur with files created by any other MS Office product. File size does not seem to matter either. On the client side (all NT 4.0 workstation SP3, Novell Intranetware Client, MS Office 97), the event viewer reports Event ID 3009 "The redirector failed to unlock part of a file on server sambaserv". I could not find any MS Knowledgebase articles regarding this error. Has anybody else seen this problem? If so, what is the fix? oplocks? keepalive? Thank you for your assistance, Rick Stephens +====================================================================+ Richard A. Stephens, Jr. E-mail: rsj@swl.msd.ray.com Systems Administrator +====================================================================+