Hi, All. We are using samba on an SL5.2 server to share filesystems with our Windows systems. Everything works properly when sharing a filesystem that is local to the samba server. When sharing an nfs filesystem, however, we see locking issues with *some* file types. For example, we can only open doc or ppt files read-only using MS Office on Windows, and get erroneous errors saying that the file is locked or already being modified. If you save the file to your desktop and than drag it back to the samba share, it copies over without problem. We can also open txt files using word and edit and save them directly onto the share without incident. We only see this problem on Windows clients, as a Mac can edit doc and ppt files directly on the share. I am not able to reproduce this on an SL4 samba server using the exact same smb.conf. In addition, the problem remains after updating samba on SL5 to 3.0.33-3.7 from 5rolling. So far the only "solutions" we've found, neither of which I'm comfortable with, are to disable locking ("locking = no") or enable fake oplocks ("fake oplocks = yes"). Has anyone else encountered this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Devin ------ Devin Bougie Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics [log in to unmask]