o.k. guys (generic non-gender specific usage) here's the deal. Whenever I create a directory under /APACHE/htdocs or under any directory under /APACHE/htdocs and then try to delete it using a drive that has been mapped to my PC using SAMBA, I get a system failure as follows: system abort -200 from subsystem 518 Secondary Status: Info=-37,Subsys=107. It doesn't matter if I create this directory using SAMBA or via the posix shell. As soon as I try to delete it via SAMBA the system crashes. I can delete the directory via the shell with no problem. Although at one time this also caused the system to crash.(I have no idea what changed) In response to a previous message regarding rmdir Mark Bixby referred me to a patch MPEJXV9B which I have installed. It makes no difference. I can and delete directories anywhere else with SAMBA with no problem. Any ideas would greatly be appreciated. Regards, Ernest Hill eXegeSys Inc. 144 South 500 East Salt Lake City, UT 84102 Phone: (801) 961-0613 Fax: (801) 538-0228 www.exegesys.com