Hello, I've got an application, ACI Rapid Research for Windows, which is causing me a ton of problems under SAMBA. When the program goes to create its own list of valid files to work from, it ends up calling unix_convert on each file in the directory. The problem is that unix_convert then goes and calls name_map_mangle() twice for every file in the directory -- and I've got 3025 files. That ends up being at least 3025 . 6050 calls -- a big number. It seems to be part of the cause of ACI hanging when it builds it's browselist. There seems to be a lot of other repetition going on, but this is as far as I've been able to debug it so far -- I don't know much C, nor much about the internals of SAMBA. It takes about a minute for ACI to form a browse list of the exact same directory under Netware. The system's specs are: SAMBA 2.0.4b, rpm version (by jht) Log level 5 RedHat 5.2 Linux 2.2.5 SMP dual i686 Windows 95/98 clients If anyone can help me, or point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it. If you need more information, feel free to email me directly. Thanks, Brian Corcoran corcoran@asares.com