I have 2 samba servers, both joined and authenticating against AD. One is a redhat box with the stock latest up2date rpm, the 2nd, and problematic one, is a debian with the latest .deb in the sarge tree. The first one works flawlessly, the 2nd one, anytime a windows user tries to write a file, it denies them access and this is in the logs: [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(914) switch message SMBntcreateX (pid 2854) conn 0x847f7b8 [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/msdfs.c:dfs_redirect(435) dfs_redirect: Not redirecting cifs4/gary/purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample1.xls. [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/msdfs.c:dfs_redirect(439) dfs_redirect: Path converted to non-dfs path purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample1.xls [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(147) unix_mode(purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample1.xls) returning 0744 [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(352) gary opened file purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample1.xls read=No write=Yes (numopen=3) [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_set_kernel_oplock(162) linux_set_kernel_oplock: Refused oplock on file purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample1.xls, fd = 29, dev = 57, inode = 28709. (Resource temporarily unavailable) [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1110) Transaction 5093 of length 76[2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/msdfs.c:dfs_redirect(435) dfs_redirect: Not redirecting cifs4/gary/purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample.xls. [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/msdfs.c:dfs_redirect(439) dfs_redirect: Path converted to non-dfs path purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample.xls [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/dir.c:dptr_create(512) creating new dirptr 256 for path purchase/Misc, expect_close = 1 [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(146) error packet at smbd/trans2.c(1844) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2) NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1110) Transaction 5165 of length 174 [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(914) switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 2854) conn 0x847f7b8 [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2findfirst(1662) call_trans2findfirst: dirtype = 16, maxentries = 1366, close_after_first=1, close_if_end = 2 requires_resume_key = 4 level 0x104, max_data_bytes = 16384 [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/msdfs.c:dfs_redirect(435) dfs_redirect: Not redirecting cifs4/gary/purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample.xls. [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/msdfs.c:dfs_redirect(439) dfs_redirect: Path converted to non-dfs path purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample.xls [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/dir.c:dptr_create(512) creating new dirptr 256 for path purchase/Misc, expect_close = 1 [2007/03/12 09:27:51, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(146) [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(914) switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 2854) conn 0x847f7b8 [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(2852) call_trans2qfilepathinfo: TRANSACT2_QFILEINFO: level = 1005 [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(2959) call_trans2qfilepathinfo purchase/Misc/PR-cdw2-sample1.xls (fnum 10880) level=1005 call=7 total_data=0 [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1110) Transaction 5094 of length 45 [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(914) switch message SMBclose (pid 2854) conn 0x847f7b8 [2007/03/12 09:27:48, 3] smbd/reply.c:reply_close(3312) close fd=29 fnum=10880 (numopen=3) However, mounting the smb volume from a linux client, the user can read/write just fine to the same server. Anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks in advance for the assistance. Sincerely, Doug