Hello, I am trying to use smbclient to create a backup using tar. I run this command from the Bourne shell: $ smbclient \\wizard\backup XXX -U backup -E -d5 -Tc - > wizard.tar 2> wizard.log Broken Pipe The generated file wizard.tar is corrupt: tar tvf wizard.tar tar: directory checksum error The file wizard.tar is 163Mb. The wizard.log file has plenty of output, but nothing out of the ordinary it seems. It is 10Mb big, so I cannot list it here, but if someone wants to see it... I am running Samba 2.0.0 on Solaris 2.4, but I also saw the problem on 1.9.18. I only see the problem on one machine. I was able to generate a 1500Mb tar file from another PC with no problems. It appears that the problem is size related. Picking a subdirectory with only 50Mb usually works ok. Picking a subdirectory with 100Mb fails most of the time. I actually suspect now that the problem may be with the network card on the PC or its driver. But if smbclient could die more gracefully than "Broken Pipe" it would have been an easier problem to diagnose. -- Tom Schutter (mailto:tom@platte.com) Platte River Associates, Inc. (http://www.platte.com) AIRCRAFT. TORPEDOED. SINKING. U-235.