Ocassionally (not always), some (not all) of my Win 9x clients get a share violation when trying to open a shared file. I also have many more DOSEMU/Linux clients that never encounter this problem. The log snippet is as follows: [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 5] smbd/filename.c:unix_convert(119) unix_convert called on file "\INMASS.EXE" [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(387) unix_clean_name [/INMASS.EXE] [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 5] smbd/mangle_hash.c:is_8_3(368) Checking INMASS.EXE for 8.3 [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 3] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(111) unix_mode(INMASS.EXE) returning 0764 [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 5] smbd/files.c:file_new(121) allocated file structure 8630, fnum = 12726 (1 used) [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(387) unix_clean_name [INMASS.EXE] [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 2] smbd/open.c:check_share_mode(502) Share violation on file (2,4,2,3957,INMASS.EXE,fcbopen = 0, flags = 0) = 0 [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(233) JOAQUIN opened file INMASS.EXE read=Yes write=No (numopen=1) [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 4] smbd/open.c:open_file_shared1(869) open_file_shared : share_mode deny - calling open_file with flags=0x0 flags2=0x0 mode=0764 returned 1 [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 5] smbd/files.c:file_free(339) freed files structure 12726 (0 used) [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(91) error string = Operation not permitted [2003/05/28 11:50:30, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(126) error packet at smbd/reply.c(1702) cmd=45 (SMBopenX) eclass=1 ecode=32 Tips and suggestions will be much appreciated. -- Oscar A. Valdez Plastipak, S.A. de C.V.