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Hello all, is it possible to execute "net ads testjoin" without net asking for a password (in any circumstance)? The reason for my question is that I want to use it in a script and thus won't be able to supply a password to net (net does not ask for a password on stdin). Thanks in advance to anyone who can shed some light on this for me! Regards, Khaled

I have a file on a VMS system that I'm accessing using a SAMBA share. When I delete the file, the icon disappears from the browser window as if it's been deleted. On the VMS host, the file is still there, and cannot be deleted because it's protected (no delete privilege). If I then press F5 to refresh the Browser window, the fie re-appears. A trace of the IP packets show that SAMBA

Windows automatically creates an Admin level disk share as \\server\volume$ <file:///\\server\volume$> . Can anyone tell me if Samba automatically does the same without having to define these in SMB.CONF? Thanks, Robert. *********************************************************************************** Any opinions expressed in email are those of the individual and not necessarily