I have installed RedHat 5.1 and Samba to allow access to the Linux box from out NT Workstations on the NT Server network and it works OK. The Linux box is called "Linuxserver". However, the Linux access time is very slow. When I click on the network neighbourhood Linuxserver icon, I get 3 shares that I have set up: brad, etcshare and rootshare. If I click on brad (home directory), it displays the contents in about 1 second. If I click on etcshare, it displays the contents in about 5 seconds. If I click on rootshare, it takes over a minute to display the contents. It appears that the speed is dependant upon the amount of files in the directory so perhaps it is sorting through the tree before displaying ths contents. But even if that were true, 1 minute is a very long time to display the Linux file & directory tree. When I Telnet in, I can su to root and cd /, ls -a -R and it takes about 15 seconds. It is only a slower network with a cheap <10Mb (more like 1 or 2Mb) hub and NE2000 network cards but still NT is very fast. Does anyone know why it could be so slow? Regards, Brad ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com