I have a problem on a Redhat 9 box with Samba. The first few times I open a file from Samba with Word or Excel running on XP I have no problem with speed. After that it takes 4 to 5 minutes to react. I copied the setup of the Redhat box from the Samba setup of a Mandrake 10 box. On the Mandrake 10 box I don't have this speed problem. I include the Global settings of the Radhat Box, which are the same as the Mandrake Box. The problems only seems to be between XP and Samba as the 95 and 98 Workstations are working fine. #======================= Global Settings ====================================[global] workgroup = OurWorkGroup netbios name = ServerName server string = Server Description printcap name = cups load printers = yes printing = cups printer admin = @"Domain Admins" log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 hosts allow = 10.10.15. 10.11.15. 127. map to guest = bad user security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd unix password sync = Yes pam password change = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *Re*ype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n \ *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* winbind uid = 10000-20000 winbind gid = 10000-20000 winbind separator = + winbind use default domain = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 local master = yes os level = 64 domain master = yes preferred master = yes domain logons = no add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false '%u' delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel '%s' add user to group script = /usr/bin/gpasswd -a '%u' '%g' delete user from group script = /usr/bin/gpasswd -d '%u' '%g' set primary group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -g '%g' '%u' add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g && getent group '%g'|awk -F: '{print $3}' delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g' add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Machine Account' -s /bin/false -M %u passdb backend = smbpasswd guest name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast wins support = yes dns proxy = no Anton Blignaut MAB Solutions anton@mabonline.co.za 082 495 2923 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MAB Solutions, and is believed to be clean. http://www.mabonline.co.za