I'm running Samba 3.0.5 on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 and I'm having some oddities with an smb share. Observe: /:mount_smbfs //user_name@NODE15/ftp /mnt Password: /:cd mnt/incoming/ /mnt/incoming:ls -l /mnt/incoming:touch test ***** Notice output of next command ***** /mnt/incoming:ls -l /mnt/incoming:ls -l test -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Aug 4 17:13 test /mnt/incoming:cd / /:umount /mnt /:mount_smbfs //user_name@NODE15/ftp /mnt Password: /:cd mnt/incoming/ /mnt/incoming:ls -l total 0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Aug 4 17:13 test /mnt/incoming:cd .. /mnt:ls -l total 16 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Aug 4 17:13 incoming /mnt:cd / /:umount /mnt /:ls -l /usr/local/ftp total 2 drwxrwxrwx 2 user_name user_name 512 Aug 4 17:13 incoming /: I believe I've encoutnered this before. However, I can't find what I did to fix it previously or where I found the answer any information would be greatly appreciated. Ryan Sommers -- Ryan "leadZERO" Sommers Gamer's Impact President ryans@gamersimpact.com ICQ: 1019590 AIM/MSN: leadZERO -= http://www.gamersimpact.com =-