Hi all, I'm using the smbcacls command to query a W2k server from a Linux Samba 2.2.7a client. (This is for the script that I'm writing, which I will post soon - I know at least one person was interested...) It all works fine, but it's very slow - it takes about 1 second per file. "Very" in this case is relative, but since I intend to run it on ~150k files... I've added some "checkpoints" to my code (Perl), and verified that it's definitely the smbcacls call that is the problem. I'm running it with: /usr/bin/smbcacls //mybox/c$ "path/to/file" -Umyuser%mypass Question is, is there any way to speed it up? Maybe some tweaks on either the server or the client? (This may be better suited on samba-technical - feel free to Cc.) Andrew -- ANDREW FUREY <andrew@terminus.net.au> - Sysadmin/developer for Terminus. Providing online networks of Australian lawyers (http://www.ilaw.com.au) and Linux experts (http://www.linuxconsultants.com.au) for instant help! Disclaimer: http://www.terminus.net.au/disclaimer.html. GCS L+++ P++ t++