I am new to Samba and Linux and couldn't find any help looking through the Samba list archives. I have a linux server with Samba installed and several XP machines accessing files on the linux machine using Samba. Opening files takes a very long time, sometimes 20 or 30 minutes, whereas ftping the file takes 10 or 20 seconds. I have tried using some of the Samba diagnostic tools like smbstatus, tcpdump and strace, but I don't see any obvious reasons the file downloads take so long. All packets go across without failing, there just seems to be many long pauses between packets. Can anyone give me any idea how to diagnose why opening these files is taking so long? Thanks, Bruce Hammond