Hi All, I want to create a named shared memory between a driver and User mode. I create named Shared memory from driver by using following code. SIZE_T ViewSize= 1024*10; RtlInitUnicodeString(&usSectionName, L"\\BaseNamedObjects\\SharedMemory"); InitializeObjectAttributes(&objAttributes, &usSectionName, OBJ_CASE_INSENSITIVE , NULL, NULL); size.HighPart = 0; size.LowPart = 1024*10; status = ZwCreateSection(&hSection,*SECTION_ALL_ACCESS*, &objAttributes,&size,*PAGE_READWRITE* ,*SEC_COMMIT*,NULL); DbgPrint("\nZwCreateSection returns status=%x",status); status = ZwMapViewOfSection( hSection,ZwCurrentProcess(),&BaseAddress,0,ViewSize,NULL,&ViewSize,ViewShare,0, *PAGE_READWRITE | PAGE_NOCACHE*); From User mode I open that section in the following way _tcscpy_s( m_szMemFileName , TEXT("Global\\SharedMemory") ); BOOL bFileObjCreatedByThisInstance = FALSE; m_hMemMapFile = OpenFileMapping( *FILE_MAP_READ*,FALSE,m_szMemFileName); m_pSharedBuffer = (UCHAR*) MapViewOfFile( m_hMemMapFile, * FILE_MAP_READ*, 0, 0, 10*1024); ZwCreateSection sets ALL_ACCESS on this section. If I open it with * FILE_MAP_READ* flag then it opens successfully, but if I specify *FILE_MAP_WRITE *then OpenFileMapping returns errror code 5 which is *access denied*. Does any one has any idea about this problem ? -- ...Swapnil || Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare || || Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare || -- ...Swapnil || Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare || || Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare ||