After some discussions with tridge, this turned out to be an oplock related thing. Setting 'oplocks = no' in the smb.conf seems to fix it. Tim. -- Tim Potter, System Admin/Programmer, Head Bee Guy Advanced Computational Systems CRC, RSISE Bldg Australian National University, Canberra 0200, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 2 62798813 Fax: +61 2 62798602