Hi - here's how to reproduce the problem. umask 22 mkdir foo chmod 311 foo mkdir foo/baz echo hello > foo/baz/test.txt then type the path to test.txt into Windows explorer (for example) - can't browse to it as foo isn't readable, but you can get there by typing the path as there's search permission. It works, but generates: [2002/02/20 09:49:47, 0] smbd/vfs.c:vfs_GetWd(794) vfs_GetWd: vfs_getwd call failed, errno Permission denied in the samba log file. Note that a pwd in the UNIX world in the above directory (foo/baz) succeeds (as search permission is enough), but vfs_GetWd() fails. Our setup here generates truck-loads of these error messages. My fix is to do the vfs_GetWd() after becoming root rather than before in oplock.c (i.e. swap two lines in oplock.c). Cheers, Mark Here's a patch for 2.2.3a (generated with diff -u): --- samba-2.2.3a/source/smbd/oplock.c.orig Wed Feb 20 09:56:47 2002 +++ samba-2.2.3a/source/smbd/oplock.c Wed Feb 20 09:58:48 2002 @@ -730,8 +730,8 @@ saved_user_conn = current_user.conn; saved_vuid = current_user.vuid; saved_fsp_conn = fsp->conn; - vfs_GetWd(saved_fsp_conn,saved_dir); change_to_root_user(); + vfs_GetWd(saved_fsp_conn,saved_dir); /* Save the chain fnum. */ file_chain_save();