All, I'm having some problems with W2K picking up incomplete files from an AIX SAMBA share. I have added the following options to my smb.conf file (mostly thanks to people on this list), but am still getting the issue. [IPAY_SVR] comment = Share of /usr/data/ipay path = /usr/data/ipay valid users = ipay_svr ipay write list = ipay_svr ipay locking = yes strict locking = yes oplocks = no The application guys from the W2K side, are suggesting I add the following 2 options to my smb.conf, but I'm not sure they'll help the issue. strict sync = yes sync always = yes From what I can make out these are to do with flushing writes straight down to disk, and not hanging about in cache. All help greatly appreciated. TIA Dave Shep