Patrick wrote: | when 2 windows pcs attempt to execute the same program the | windows machines crash and the linux server locks up so I | have to keep killing smb processes. Could you tell the list what program it is, and whether it's using a common file or database on the Samba machine. If it's locally-written, can you ask the authors what database-like operations it does? I suspect you need oplocks off and regular locks on in the appropriate share, but that's a mere guess, based on previous database-like program's misbehavior! --dave --- -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com