Jan, You are NOT going to get better performance out of Samba, because your clients are NOT microsoft-born. The UNIX machines are better off with NFS. If the networked-file system (similar to the expansion of NFS, but NOT the same) is slow, you need 100Mbps cards and excellent RAID file systems. I heard that if clients are transferring extremely large files (> 1meg) then the total time between SMB and NFS is negligible. But, NFS is much much better at a series of file operations == which take up a significant amount of time (almost as much as the data transfer). After all that's why WEBNFS as a concept arose. Sarma@usa.net