hi alan, we used the suse 7.3 standard installation cd. (installing it on a 1gb root partition) and afterwards i recompiled 2.4.18+xfs-1.0.2 (selected xfs and posix-acl, which is directly below, and configured the lvm. the only things: you need the at least the 2.0.x tools for all the functions. (if needed i have the tools on our ftp-server, also rpm for suse 7.3) then i recompiled samba with ./configure --with-acl-support --$other-features and it worked. ah, if using it as pdc, remove the acl support from the share, where the profile get stored by adding the function "nt acl support = no" cause you get troubles with w2k-sp2 if not. maybe it helped thomas ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through encrypted https://webmail.tronicplanet.de