Hello, I still have the problem while openig MS Word and Excel files. When I do so for the first time, Excel or Word comes up and once the Applicaion has loaded it displays a grey screen whit the hour glass. It take up to 15s or more to even open a small Word document say 20K or so. Once the thing has been opened the Application is closed and another document gets selected via the NT Explorer which is much bigger say 5M it gets loaded real quick. If I close everything and wait for longer time e.g. 30 min. the thing is slow again. I checked the logs and all I could find is this: gehr (10.10.11.26) connect to service Project-M as user gehr (uid=101, gid=101) (pid 27671) [2000/07/26 16:52:35, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(2516) call_nt_transact_ioctl: Currently not implemented. This only happens with Word or Excel files. Other Applications do not seem to have this problem. When I move files to and fro the server it goes real fast. Any ideas ??? Thanks in advance Robert