I would like to shut down samba before I begin my backup routine. Before I do this, I would like to send a message to the users who are logged in on their Windows machines, asking them to log out. I would prefer this to be like a ShowMessage dialog box, if possible. Could anyone please tell me how I can do this? A Redhat tech support specialist told me he thinks this is possible through samba or smb-client. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com