On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 11:48:34 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote: >> http://lightconsulting.com/~thalakan/gpdump.cap > > A comparitive capture of what Win2k does could be useful here. Yes - maybe the MMC program tries to do all its operations by bashing away at a file over SMB. I think Access works like this as well. Tim.