Hi, I appologise if this totally irritates people as there seems to be quite a lot of info about this issue but a lot of it is quite old, for samba 2.x and kernels around 2.0 also. I have been beating my head against it for a little while - bumped into a dead end now ;( I am running centos-3 x86_64 (RH ES equiv) with samba 3.0.7-1 as the server, and OS2 as the client. Kernel is 2.4.21-20.EL. Connectivity is no problem, OS2 just hooks straight on in. To test, I have been running net use z: \\linx\linxdata (no problems) [C:]xcopy *.* z: /V /S The xcopy seems to work fine until it hits the dir /Desktop, then it stops, saying : The system cannot create this directory I have *set ea support = yes in my smb.conf *recompiled the kernel with extended attributes set to y *mounted the ext3 LV with the user_xattr option set using tune2fs I have also used the same command to xcopy /desktop to another OS2 drive successfully. I have also, from this copy, turned off all the attributes I could find using attrib -R -H -A -whatever Desktop etc All with the same result. If I go into /Desktop, and try to copy files/dirs from there, I get an extended attribute error saying the target directory doesn't support extended attributes. My questions are: Am I doing a totally dumb thing trying to xcopy C drive? Is there a problem with xcopy? (I am not that familiar with OS2) Is there something I have missed wrt setting up the server to handle extended attributes? Thanks, Gillian