Hi, I have just installed Samba 2.0.6 and noticed that the "pagefile.sys" smbmount bug still exists: When unsing smbmount to mount an NT4 volume, and doing an "ls" on the mounted directory, I get: # ls /mnt ls: pagefile.sys: Permission denied . IO.SYS SRVMGR.EXE ffastun.ffa summary.dat .. KBROWSER SRVMGR.HLP ffastun.ffl sysback [etc] The smbfs code seems to have a problem stat'ing the pagefile.sys file. When trying an 'ls pagefile.sys', I get the same: # ls pagefile.sys ls: pagefile.sys: Permission denied Note that when accessing this share with smbclient, the pagefile.sys file can be viewed correctly. This means that the NT permissions are OK, and that the bug is in the smbmount code. This bug has been reported on the Samba mailing list and on the Linux kernel mailing list before. With Linux 2.0 kernels, this worked fine. The 2.2 kernels broke it. As smbmount wasn't officially a part of Samba, I haven't raised this lately on the list. Now that it is, I hoped that it maybe would be solved in 2.0.6. So -- Jeremy, Tridge, whoever -- any ideas on this issue? Note that answers such as "you shouldn't access pagefile.sys anyway" aren't particularly helpful. For the interested, I'm running an automated smbmount-based backup utility to backup our Windows machines. The utility *is* instructed to ignore pagefile.sys, but it fails on stat'ing the directory listing -- long before it even tries to read pagefile.sys. So this really has to be fixed, guys... Thanks, Gavrie. -- Gavrie Philipson System Administrator Netmor Applied Modeling Research Ltd.