Hi, I am usingn Samba 2.0.6 and have found some strange behaviour when Samba encounters unix filesnames which end with a dot from Windows 98 clientse. Samba will pass on such a name unmodified to Windows, but at some point Windows is stripping off the final dot from the name. This can be observed by creating two directories on a samba share, one called "test" and one caleed "test.". When viewed from a Windows 98 client, it will give the contents of the "test" directory even when viewing the "test." directory. Strangely enough, windows seems to strip the trailing dot when deleting a file, deleting a directory and viewing a directory, but not when opening a file. The solution to this seems easy enough - just add a test for files ending with a dot to the illegal name test, so they will be mangled along with other files with illegal names. Martin.