hello alex, we are enthusiastic Pegasus users in our 5 doctors family medical practice, but have never been clever enough to get Mercury working under Win95. We use Pegasus for in-office mail, and a couple of us have modems and get our own internet mail on it also. we have 13 workstations with reception etc, and samba has solved all the instability problems we were having using win95 as a server. Running under Linux Redhat 5.1 May I suggest that when you are happy with your patch, that you make it available as a binary that ordinary people like me can download and run on one of the flavours of Linux? Perhaps Andrew Tridgell would be happy to host it on the Samba web site? cheers Hugh.