This is wierd, I have never seen anything like this with Samba before. There was a directory (lets call it /data1/top dir/bottom dir). Now I could not access the bottom dir through samba or linux, but I noticed a number of smb processes connected to that directory so I tried to kill them and could not kill any smb related processes. So then I tried to stop samba through /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop (RH Box) and the smb process would not stop because it could not kill any of the smb processes. Has anyone seen anything like that before? I ended up rebooting the box and now everything is happy again but I would like to find a better way to fix that next time. I am running 2.2.2. Thanks for any feedback y'all may have Jon