hi, I have a SUN machine running samba server. The vxfs shares on this machine is shared thru samba server SUN Machine -- SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 Samba -- 2.2.4 I am trying to remotely mount this share from the SUN machine, on my Linux machine (the linux kernel supports cifs). Linux -- Red Hat 7.3 Linux Kernel -- 2.4.20-18.7XFS1.30pre2smp Linux CIFS Client version -- 0.8.2 When i try to cifs mount a share ISUXXX, from Machine <IPAddress>, on my linux machine i see the below problem: Try1: mount.cifs //<IPAddress>/ISUXXX /someMountPoint -o username=<userName>,password=<passwd> ---> My linux box starts hanging ! Does not take any mouse, keyboard events. The machine seems to be alive (i can ping it) Try2: mount -t cifs //<IPAddress>/ISUXXX /someMountPoint Asks for password : <I enter password> ---> My linux box starts hanging ! Does not take any mouse, keyboard events. The machine is not even alive (cannot ping) In this case i do not give any usename, i think it picks it from the USER env (which might be a wrong username) Do u think iam missing something ? I appreciate u'r help. Thanks, -Sangeetha