Hello, I am trying to get the archive bit mapping feature to behave under Samba 2.2.2 on a Linux box (Slackware 8.0) serving NT4.0 and Win2K clients. I have "map archive = yes" and "dos filemode = yes". If I have "force create mode = 0100", creating new files sets the archive bit (good) and "attrib +a filename" will turn on the archive bit if it was off (good) but "attrib -a filename" will not clear the archive bit (bad). Our NT Backup software needs this feature to do incremental backups, so with this setting all backups are full backups that fill up tapes. If I have "force create mode = 0000", new files do not have the archive bit set (bad), "attrib -a filename" will turn off the archive bit (good) but "attrib +a filename" won't turn it back on (bad). The behavior is identical with both the gui properties and command line, neither tell you when they fail to set the flag (bad MS). I would like get this problem fixed so that the archive flag is turned on for new files, and can be turned on and off from NT space, so that backups work. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. John Gilbert jgilbert@eosbiotech.com