hi! i have some strange problem here with subj. there is samba 2.05a intalled on linux (redhat 6.1 with customized kernel) now - win 98 client sees the share(reguar name, not long), enters it, can copy/remove files via explorer - seems fine. the problem is - user needs to use xcopy in some batch in order to create files in the same directory. not xcopy nor xcopy32 work with this particular directory. i created another one in same depth, same permissions - xcopy succeded. Worst of all - user is sure that it worked with the previous version of samba (1.18p*, rh 5.2). May be, someone has seen it before? Kind of strange behaviour... logs are clean. strace of relevant smbd shows no errors (all stat(), open() are ok...) i changed the log level and was able to see that smb_write gets permission denied message, but why... The logs are available, but large a bit (~170k the whole file) Thanks a lot.