Hello samba people I do not know if it is a bug, but a problem indeed: we have a Sun running solaris 2.7 samba 2.0.6) and NT clients AND a HSM Filesystem called samfs. This keeps data on tapes, and 16kB on disk. A client request a file can leed into grabbing a tape and bring back the data online to disk. 1) NFS Client waits for data until it's coming, even 1 day 2) (NT)/smbclient gets 16k which are allready online then get 3 times receive_smb: length < 0! client_receive_smb failed then stoping communication and Error code 0 closing remote file (0.265384 kb/s) (average 0.265384 kb/s) smb: \hubi\> So, what's happening here ? IMHO, smbd makes a open(file_A), read(file_A) gets 16k and send them to the client, then it is waiting for the next bytes and ... ... I would suggest is: sending 0bytes to the client for what reason ever. But you will know better, and having a solution (I hope) Thanx in advance Hubertus Krogmann PaderLinx Neue Informationsmedien GmbH Email: hubertus.krogmann@paderlinx.de Tel.: 05251-8994-18 Fax: 05251-8994-20 WWW: www.paderlinx.de