Ok now that I don't have any hair left I have come to you for help. Heres the scenario, Win 9X clients work fine. I have WIN2K and NT clients that when I connect to the samba server opening directories and files is extremely SLOW. BUT heres the good part.. If I map the drive it works just fine! Now for the guts. I am having this same problem in 2 different locations. One site is RH7.1 with samba 2.0.10 The main site is a RH 7 box with Samba 2.2.1a I AM using encrypted passwords I used webmin to sync the unix accounts and the SMB passwords. I am NOT trying to do any kind of PDC stuff. I have tried so many different configs its just crazy. Master browser, WINS server, then I tried it with those options off. I tried just allowing guest users and still nothing. So I am thinking this has to do with something either file permissions and locking.. OR name resolution... But I am still not sure.. Any one got any ideas? Thanks Jamie _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com