I have set up an adminstrative share of Microsoft Office 2000 on a redhat samba server (2.0.7). I have made the read-only share available to several windows 2000 clients through guest access. I would like to set up my clients to run Office apps over the network. When I go through the Office setup program, specifying "run from network" for most office components, the installation seems to complete without a problem. But when I actually try to run Word or Excel from a windows client, windows does not know where to find the executable files. I get a dialog box that prompts me to enter the path to the program. The problem only occurs with windows 2000 clients, and only when I install office using a UNC path (e.g., by running \\admin\office\setup.exe). When I map a windows drive, say O:, to the samba share and then run O:\setup.exe, Office apps work perfectly. When I try installing Office from an NT share, it works perfectly. Only when I do the installation from a UNC path pointing to a Samba share do I encounter problems. What could I be doing wrong? (Assuming my Samba configuration is to blame.) bb please cc any replies to me directly