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...or faster) with Samba ? Sure: update the file on the AIX machine using smbclient or smbsh. This uses the smb protocol, and triggers the oplock-break mechanism which forces the cleints to get a fresh copy. You could put something like this in a Makefile: install: smbclient //scot/davecb -Udavecb%passwd -c \ "prompt; put ${EXECUTABLE}" If you don't like putting passwords in files, you can leave off -U and be prompted for it. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify Americas Customer Engineering, | some people and astonish the rest....