I have Linux RedHat 5.5.2 and samba 3.0.33 as a fileshare system, i put on samba all my documents of excel, word, adobe, lotus. In my PC I run excel and when start from file,open, network, i can see the RedHat server then click on it, just happen a close the window of the procedure... and do nothig. I have a shortcut in my PC to the REDHat Server and samba files, i can see all the documents but if i try to open one directly (this is double click) on anyone of them not open just change to the aplication in this case excel or word, and do nothing just show the next message : You can't access to the file \\REDHAT Linux\folder of work\file.xls there could be some reasons : the name or the path name not exist - other program is using this file - the book that you're trying to save have the same name that other wich is open. I don't have problem to open Lotus, Adobe, TXT files, directly from samba or from my PC searching in the network in each aplication. If i put the file out of samba i can open it whithout problem. Thanks for your attention. (sorry for my english) Ruben M.