We have tried to create a shared data area to be used both by Samba mounting PC's and macintoshes via Columbia Appletalk protocol. We find that a Word file written onto the Unix Samba server from a PC is not readable by a Mac using CAP on the same server. We think this may be because in our setup the file is written Unix as type "data" as given by the Unix "file" command eg: --> file Statistics.doc Statistics.doc: data We believe that CAP requires the file as an executable format to open up mac Word. Has anyone else experienced this, or understand if this is the correct diagnosis, and also if Samba can be coerced to write the file out in a mac readable form. TIA Andrew =====================================================================Dr Andrew Boswell email : A.Boswell@uea.ac.uk School Liaison Consultant phone : +44-1603-593856 IT and Computing Services fax : +44-1603-593467 University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK