I am quite perplexed. SuSe 9.2 Samba 3.0.14a Windows XP SP2 client May 2 16:17:07 wptzhome smbd[17103]: sherberg opened file fixed assets/VEHICLES/brad.xls read=Yes write=No (numopen=13) May 2 16:17:07 wptzhome smbd[17103]: sherberg opened file fixed assets/VEHICLES/brad.xls read=Yes write=No (numopen=13) May 2 16:17:07 wptzhome smbd[17103]: sherberg opened file fixed assets/VEHICLES/brad.xls read=Yes write=No (numopen=13) May 2 16:17:07 wptzhome smbd[17103]: sherberg opened file fixed assets/VEHICLES/brad.xls read=Yes write=No (numopen=13) May 2 16:17:07 wptzhome smbd[17103]: sherberg opened file fixed assets/VEHICLES/brad.xls read=Yes write=Yes (numopen=13) May 2 16:17:07 wptzhome smbd[17103]: sherberg opened file fixed assets/VEHICLES/brad.xls read=Yes write=No (numopen=14) It seems that in the space of less than 1 second this file has been opened 6 times by the same user from the same machine and one of those times it was Read/Write. Is this how I should read this or am I missing something? Thanks Mike