Hi ! I have a problem using Windows 2000 offline files/folders on a W2k Professional notebook (client) connected to a Samba 2.0.7 server (Linux): A user's home directory resides on the Linux server. It is mounted as drive H: and made available offline (including subfolders) on the notebook. During synchronisation (at logon/logoff), Windows creates lots of new folders (on the network server), all empty and with very strange names: 0, 1, 2, a, o, k, ?, ?, ?, and so on. When synchronizing during logoff, Windows states that a folder called "\\server\share\E:\." no longer exists on the server and asks whether the offline copy should be deleted too. But the is and has never been a drive E: on the notebook :-( Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem ? By(e): Raimund.