I am setting up my first production Samba/Linux server and so far I have not found equivalent settings for Novell's ROS and RWS flags. I guess it's some combination of: share modes ( "NEVER" to be turned off) ole locking ( safe for Linux?) blocking locks fake oplocks ( should be off? ) locking ( "should never need to set this" ) oplocks strict locking ( off? ) So far the performance seems more than adequate and I hope for great things for Samba. Any help much appreciated. Lindsay Retired CNE. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445E vk6lj Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=