The problem I've come across is that some directories are infinitely deep on Unix, and Windows clients tend to get confused. There are some parameters you can tweak on the share to prevent this, but my feeble efforts were unable to fix this, despite the "dont descend" parameter... look up smbtar to backup Win machines from Linux I have a special user that can sign onto the machine with the tape drive and gets full access to all the shares that way. I have a share defined like : [exports$] path=/home/export browseable=no valid users = backup admin users = backup The "backup" user (a clever user that I trust) signs onto the 98 machine, and double clicks an icon to backup the whole /home/export structure. YMMV, this wont really work in a big environment. Ed -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:ed@schernau.com Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA