I've been playing around and have uncovered a few interesting things. When you create a briefcase from XP it appears as a standard folder. To make it appear a a briefcase, alter the permissions in linux to 500 : read by owner and execute / search by owner. When you look again at the b/c it will appear correctly. HOWEVER. You will not be able to move files into the b/c. I have got round this by entering the b/c folder on XP. Setting the write by owner permission on linux (700) Adding the files into the b/c and then Setting permissions back to 500. It seems that one can then synch any files altered. But again you cannot add new files until permissions are changed on linux. Hope I haven't answered an already answered question but I couldn't find out much about this little issue. Hop This Helps Pete Stoves