I've been observing some smbds via a system call trace and I've found that it frequently makes calls to getdirentries(). I figured that this might not really be a bad thing if the client, for example, keeps running DIR, or something. I've also noticed that frequent calls to getdirentries() ocurr when smbd needs to resolve filenames that are of a different case than what the client asked for. This makes sense, I guess. But what I really don't understand is that this syscall occurs a number of times in the netlogon share. In and around running the Win95 logon script, smbd tends to keep re-reading the dir. Doesn't Samba cache dir entries? This is a DEC Unix 4.0D machine. Thanks. Rob Naccarato "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages Sys Admin because they know they can be impolite without Sheridan College having their skulls split, as a general thing." Oakville, Ont. Canada - Robert E. Howard