We run a small LAN of about 20 computers that use a Linux system running samba as their central disk server. Everything works as expected 95% of the time, but occasionally one of the client machines will be unable to connect to the central disk when booting. There doesn't seem to be any real correspondence to machine load (which never dips below 80% idle anyway) or the number of currently running samba connections. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing the problem or should I simply be telling people to reboot their machines when it happens? -David Powers