[snip] Has anyone been able to get PHP working fully under IIS 6.0? If so, try the following script: <?PHP print_r(shell_exec('dir')); ?> I get "Warning: shell_exec() [function.shell-exec]: Unable to execute" whenever I try this or any other shell_exec or back tick (`) shell function. I've tried running in IIS 5.0 isolation mode, and setting all kinds of execution permissions to no avail. [/snip] 6.0 or 5.0 (you mention both)? AFAIK print_r(shell_exec('dir')); will not work for several reasons... shell_exec(`dir`) would not return an array, so print_r for that would be unable to execute. Have you tried opendir() and readdir()? That is the way to get a directory listing. Try this; $var = shell_exec(`dir`); echo $var; -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php