Hello List, EL5 -Centos5 -Samba v 3.0242 Our school Samba server works great,,,except,,on Sundays, when I go back into school on Monday morning The home folders will not let me save changes to an already saved file. (This is for ALL users). I can see in the smb.log that the '+' is being added to the users name. So,,, all I have to do is either uncomment,or recomment the 'winbind seperator = +' line. Once I do this and save the file then restart samba then everything works fine again. I can reproduce this by simply restarting samba from the terminal. It does not make any difference if the winbind line is commented or uncommented. Simply changing it to the other makes samba work fine again. I updated Samba 2 versions from the stock install of Samba on Centos5,with the exact same results. I'm almost afraid to try and update to yet another newer version of Samba as this setup,,is working great,even with all of the Windows Vista Pc's were are aquiring. Would anyone have any ideas on what I need to change to make this snaffoo go away? I can not see any cron jobs on this server that ONLY runs on Sunday/Sunday night. As I said earlier I can see the prob in that the '+' character is added to the users name so doing the routine stated above circumvents this and all is well again. Thanks, Barry Cisna