Samba has worked well for several years - upgraded to 2.2 with Suse 7.2 6 months ago all well and happy. An NT client - logged on as Administrator - that was working with Samba for over a year had its share changed from one user to another - using clear text passwords, the machine was also tidied up. It connects to Samba with the new user's log on and password and NT explorer sees the shares and can delete and copy/move files around. It can also create notepad and wordpad files but cannot create MS Office 97 files any more?????!! - instead it creates a whole lot of empty temporary files on the share and an empty file of the Office file that was supposed to be created there. Anyone any ideas ? I have re-installed Office and applied service patches 1 and 2b - before even looking at this. (Office saves files fine to other windows shares and the local disk :-) For some reason this user cannot get permission to write these files. What's the difference between office files (Access, Excel, Word) and notepad/wordpad files??!! Extracts from the log debuglevel=2 [2002/02/14 11:24:39, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(960) Defaulting to Lanman password for kim [2002/02/14 11:24:39, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(638) ntserver (192.168.2.9) connect to service shared as user kim (uid=514, gid=100) (pid 26874) [2002/02/14 11:24:39, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(.) inheriting from . [2002/02/14 11:24:39, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(.) inherit mode 40776 [2002/02/14 11:24:41, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp) inheriting from . [2002/02/14 11:24:41, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp) inherit mode 40776 [2002/02/14 11:24:45, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp) inheriting from . [2002/02/14 11:24:45, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp) inherit mode 40776 [2002/02/14 11:24:45, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(1776) call_nt_transact_ioctl: Currently not implemented. [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/2001Carde.doc read=Yes write=Yes (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(205) kim closed file Temp/2001Carde.doc (numopen=2) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/2001Carde.doc read=Yes write=No (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(205) kim closed file Temp/2001Carde.doc (numopen=2) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/2001Carde.doc read=Yes write=Yes (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/~$01Carde.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/~$01Carde.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/~$01Carde.doc read=No write=Yes (numopen=4) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(205) kim closed file Temp/~$01Carde.doc (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/~$01Carde.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/~$01Carde.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/~$01Carde.doc read=Yes write=No (numopen=4) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(205) kim closed file Temp/~$01Carde.doc (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/~$01Carde.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/~$01Carde.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/~$01Carde.doc read=No write=Yes (numopen=4) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(205) kim closed file Temp/~$01Carde.doc (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:47, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/2001Carde.doc read=Yes write=No (numopen=4) [2002/02/14 11:24:48, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(205) kim closed file Temp/2001Carde.doc (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:48, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:48, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:48, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/2001Carde.doc read=Yes write=No (numopen=4) [2002/02/14 11:24:48, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(205) kim closed file Temp/2001Carde.doc (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde1.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde1.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/2001Carde1.doc read=Yes write=No (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(205) kim closed file Temp/2001Carde1.doc (numopen=2) [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde1.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde1.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216) kim opened file Temp/2001Carde1.doc read=Yes write=No (numopen=3) [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(205) kim closed file Temp/2001Carde1.doc (numopen=2) [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde1.doc) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/2001Carde1.doc) inherit mode 40777 [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(61) unix_mode(Temp/fsaF.tmp) inheriting from Temp [2002/02/14 11:24:59, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(69) unix_mode(Temp/fsaF.tmp) inherit mode 40777 and so on with '000s of these .tmp files The smb.conf file is [global] workgroup = DUX guest account = nobody keep alive = 30 os level = 2 debuglevel = 2 kernel oplocks = false security = user log file = /var/log/smblog.%m printing = bsd printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY map to guest = Bad User interfaces = 192.168.2.50/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1/255.0.0.0 wins support = no [homes] comment = home-directory browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0750 writeable = yes [shared] comment = Shared-Files guest ok inherit permissions = yes path = /home/shared read only = no public = yes create mask = 0777 writable = yes Regards Phil Daintree Dux Industries Ltd Ph:+64 (04) 567 8900 Fax: +64 (04) 567 8904