Hi, I have at home two PC's, one is running Windows 2000, the other SuSE Linux 7.3. (Samba 2.2.1) They have a direct Ethernet connection. The Problem I have with Samba is that when I copy a big file (i.e.30 MB) in what ever direction and more than one file is to copy, the network connection terminates after the big file is copied. I must then restart the Linux machine to make the network work again. When I have hundreds of small files it works in both directions. In the samba log file with log level 10 I found the following entry as the last that belongs to the file copy action: [2003/01/07 23:52:47, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server(483) Server exit (caught signal) When I'm locally on the Linux machine then after the big file was copied the cp command doesn't return, I have to kill it. The last kernel message is: smb_request: result -512, setting invalid I have changed the smb.conf file a lot but the problem is always the same. The latest thing I tried was to read the network HowTo's and to change the network addresses, but this also leaded to no improvement. The only Idea I have is that the network terminates itself when for 10 seconds or so no communication on the net occurs. Wolfgang