Hello again folks, I forgot to mention that we're running samba 1.9.18. We can't move up to 2.0.3 since I believe 2.0.3 requires glibc 2.1 but oracle crashes with glibc2.1. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tom Jenkins DevIS (http://www.devis.com) python is executable pseudo-code; perl is executable line-noise