Hi, I'm coping with the interpretation of the desktop.ini on samba shares, as I have an application, which requests these desktop.ini files to alter the folder-icon (besides the windows explorer). I've seen in the archive many posts how to avoid accessing these files, I now am in the situation, in which i need the desktop.ini files interpreted: In every subdirectory a desktop.ini file is created by the application, a text file with the following content: [.ShellClassInfo] CLSID={79BC0345-1015-11D2-A299-006008312725} This changes the actual folder icon in windows explorer on the local filesystem and on windows shares, but there's no change on a samba share. My environment is the following: I have a samba server running 2.2.8 with the following parameters: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = SERVER encrypt passwords = Yes os level = 64 [comment, log levels etc.] [clips] comment = clips %v path = /clips/projects read only = No Browsable = Yes create mask = 664 directory mask = 775 Connected to it is a WinXP machine with Pinnacle Editing-Software. Any hints how to get the normal behaviour here? Thanks, Dirk -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dirk M?ller Professional Services Digital Media SGI Deutschland Tel.: 089 / 46 108 277 E-Mail: dim@sgi.com