I did a little research on line and it seems that the smb mount going to a windows box has a tendency of loosing its connection and returning an error message stating that the specified mountpoint is stale and it also intermittenly flashes up another message as follows: renoir kernel:smb_request:result-104, setting invalid renoir kernel:smb_retry:secussfull, new pid=2464, generation 2 now keep in mind that every couple of hours this message will flash up and the pid will be the same number, however the genertaion will be 3 then 4 and so on..... the mount command I am issueing is as follows mount -t smbfs -o username=somebody,password=somepassword,gid=smbusers,dmask=0777,rw //mamiya/dss /smbusers/dss Also I found a sublet of Samba called smbsh which at one time addressed this problem but for some reason its no longer packaged with Samba versions 2.0 or higher... Any Ideas?