Nobody. hmmph. Oh well, perhaps there is some insight out there, I'll ask a different way... I have noticed in my log.smb that the following is being reported: 'Skipping become_user - already user' however, I never actually see a become_user reported, let alone succeed. I believe this is the problem, but I'm not sure how to solve it. Anyone? -- snippet from log.smb -- 09/11/97 15:36:02 stimpy (10.5.194.36) connect to service dce_root as user dgorski (uid=8000,gid=3000) (pid 6840) 09/11/97 15:36:02 tconX service=dce_root user=dgorski cnum=81 09/11/97 15:36:02 Transaction 3 of length 41 switch message SMBgetatr (pid 6840) chdir to /.../cellname.ford.com/fs unix_clean_name [] 09/11/97 15:36:02 getatr name= mode=18 size=0 09/11/97 15:36:02 Transaction 4 of length 87 switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 6840) Skipping become_user - already user call_trans2findfirst: dirtype = 22, maxentries = 6, close_after_first=0, close_i f_end = 0 requires_resume_key = 0 level = 260, max_data_bytes = 2432 unix_clean_name [./*.*] unix_clean_name [*.*] unix_clean_name [./] creating new dirptr 0 for path ./, expect_close = 1 dptr_num is 0, wcard = *.*, attr = 22 09/11/97 15:36:02 SMBtrans2 mask=*.* directory=./ cnum=81 dirtype=22 numentries= 1 09/11/97 15:36:02 Transaction 5 of length 55 switch message SMBgetatr (pid 6840) Skipping become_user - already user [Darrin] "I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious." - A. Einstein Darrin M. Gorski, Research Computer Systems Network Support Scientific Research Laboratories, Ford Motor Company Internet: dgorski@ford.com | Tel/Fax: +1 (313) 248-3753