Samba Server (2.0.3) on Linux file server - NT Clients. All of a sudden (as of this AM) - multiple clients can open the same file at the same time with no alerts - ie. Excel Spreadsheets, Word Documents. Until this AM this never used to be the case. What used to happen was access was denied or read only. Tried restating (./smb restart) - problem persists. Has anybody seen this before? What I would like to see happen is if a file is already open - then the user gets an alert that the file is open, the file is opened as read only, the other user is ID'd (username) in the alert. How should my configuration be to get to this point? When SAMBA was working - I would get a file in use alert/read only but .... I could not get the ID of the user that already had the file open. Regards, Hugh Evans This Email is "Confidential" - the content of this Email and any attachments, if any - shall not be distributed beyond the intended recipient(s) without the specific authorization from the originator of the Email" ***************************************** What goes up, must come down. Ask any system administrator.