Hi All, Im down to the last issue in my samba install. I have an ftp server that supports many webservers via mapped network drives. in this instance the drive is to a samba share. The only problem i have is that it takes quite a while for the contents to show. i.e. if you create a directory and refresh it in your ftp client it disappears. if you then keep refreshing to window after several seconds it will re-appear. The sam if u upload a file..it immediately disappears, then if you keep refreshing the window will reappear after several seconds. This does not happen when accessing the share vi windows explorer....nor does it happen when connecting via ftp to any of the drives mapped to shares on windows boxes. I have turned off all caching in the ftp client and the ftp server just in case. Please help, it's my final issue! Paul :)