Hello there The following phenomenon has ocurred on samba 2.0.7 as well as on a 2.2.0, one was a Compaq and the other a IBM Server. When trying to browse a certain directory the Win Explorer freezes and nothing happens anymore On doing a "ls" on the same directory from the shell freezes that session as well. Checking the Samba and the System logs shows nothing unusual. A good number of smbd processes were running which could not be killed not even with a kill -9 "procinfo" shows a load average of > 30 but the system is responding as usual. Doing a "top" shows a load average of < 0.5, Funny eyh :-) Disks had plenty of space left. Other shares and directories on the same share could still be accessed. I had to reboot the machine after 168 days of uptime :-( Once the machines where up again the directory could be accessed without any Problems Any ideas ? Best regards Robert Gehr "A ship in a harbour is safe, but that's not what ships are built for" =======================================web2CAD AG Emailfabrikstrs. 12 92224 Amberg / Germany visit: http://www.web2cad.com