Hi all, I recently used smbtar (Samba Version 2.0.4) to create a tar file "backup" of an NT filesystem. However, when using GNU tar to extract the tar file, I get a little ways into the 'tar xvpf ../file.tar' command and get a whole bunch of errors: tar: Read error on ../file.tar: Invalid argument tar: Read error on ../file.tar: Invalid argument tar: Read error on ../file.tar: Invalid argument tar: Read error on ../file.tar: Invalid argument Then tar just dies on me complaining about "Too many error". Has anyone seen this before? My guess is that there are possibly too many spaces in some of the file name paths, and tar is treating this as arguments which don't exist. The command I used to create the tar archive is: smbtar -s ${SERVER} -p ${PASSWD} -x ${SHARE} -u ${USER} -t ${TARFILE} Does anyone know of any way to extract files using GNU tar? Thank you for any help you can provide. -- Seeya, Paul ---- Please reply to plussier@baynetworks.com. The corp sendmail people insist on rewriting outgoing mail (including Reply-to: headers!) to send to '@nortelnetworks.com' which we keep telling them is quite broken, but they don't listen :) I've been bought, sold, and now given away :) LanCity->Bay Networks->Nortel->Arris If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!