What is going on here with samba and win xp?? Did MS put something in one of their hotfixes to break samba?? I just tried going back to samba3.0a22 which I had running previously on the same server with the same strange results (same samba config file). I think MS is worried and as such is trying their standard response since they can't buy samba they will patch their OS so samba will not work with it.... As such I was wondering if there is someone out there with a Win XP Pro box that has not been patched to run tests with on this issue, loading hotfix after hotfix one at a time untill things break. Jeff Means CIO MeansPC meaje@meanspc.com