Hi, I have DOS program and I have to move it from Novell to Samba server. In Novell program locks file all but DENY READ : 0 so that other clients can read file and if one client is reading file, other can write to it. I would like achive same affect on samba server, but on samba server program locks file read and write so reading the file (while the other client is opening file for write) is not posible. This is output of smbstatus of the file i would like to read while samba if performing this lock Locked files: Pid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock Name -------------------------------------------------------------- 3637 DENY_WRITE 0x3 RDWR NONE /home/public/somefile.dat Tue Jun 17 12:34:59 2003 Thank you for any help! By, Simon Gacnik