Hi Christopher, what I did was just to disable the View as Web Page stuff in w2k. that way media player didn't lock the file I was trying to rename. it may not be much of a solution but it works. Palli -----Original Message----- From: christopher j bottaro [mailto:cjb@cs.utexas.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 7:28 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: "Access Denied" when trying to rename a file from win2k hello, i'm new to samba, don't really know much besides getting the samba server up and running. i have redhat-7.1 running samba on one machine and i access my home from my win2k machine. i can listen to my mp3's, etc from win2k, but when i try to rename from win2k, i get the access denied message. also, in my mp3s dir, i can create a new file, edit/rename it, delete it, etc, but files that already exist, i can't rename for some reason. the permissions on the linux side are set for read/write/execute for the user. what is wrong? can anyone answer this problem or defer me to some reading or documentation about this? thank you, christopher _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp