Samba Development Team: We are a data storage solution provider located in Rockville, Maryland, USA and we are currently investigating the possibility of using Samba in one of our product offering. Samba's envisioned role in our application would be that of a NT gateway into our system. At the conceptual level, I am wondering if your team has encountered and witnessed working an interface similar to ours: Our current system interface is a UNIX user-mode program that takes all directives from TCP/IP data blocks. We are looking to upgrade this interface to accept directives from the file system, eg. "ls /mountpoint/this_is_an_instruction" would generate an command to our system. Samba would be responsible for converting such special file requests from NT to Unix file requests. A customized Unix file system driver (SUFS) would service these file system requests and convert them to a format understood by our user-mode program for further processing. Would you see any problems in including Samba in this interpretative role? Does Samba pose any special requirements a UFS driver? Or propagate any requirements to our application ? TIA UKO. utan@filetek.com