I'm trying to do some quick backups from a Win2K laptop to a Fedora Core 1 desktop but it ain't working. The backups are just a bunch of xcopy's. Most of them run fine but two fail and I don't understand why. It appears that xcopy is attempting to create directories in both cases. When I run the backup targeting a Win98 desktop there is no problem. Here are two examples of the failure, most others work just fine! d:\>xcopy /S /Z /V /Q /Y /I /H /R /D /EXCLUDE:d:\bat\bu2x.exclude d:\ApplicationData\* \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\ Access denied Unable to create directory - \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\nof7\Templates\MXTemplates 0 File(s) copied d:\>xcopy /S /Z /V /Q /Y /I /H /R /D "D:\Program Files\NetObjects Fusion 7\*" \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\programfiles\nof7 Access denied Unable to create directory - \\fc1\backups\ApplicationData\programfiles\nof7\Components\ApollonComponents 0 File(s) copied Any ideas as to what the problem might be? Kind regards, Mike