I upgraded to samba 2.2.7 on Red Hat 7.2 from Red Hat RPMs. Emacs on XP now hangs for 5 seconds when it autosaves to a samba file. After a timeout, emacs continues merrily along until the next autosave. Ordinary file writes (saves) and reads are instantaneous. While emacs is hanging, other windows accessing samba are blocked, too. I've checked the logs (pfirewall.log, samba/*, messages, etc), turned off iptables, and turned off XP's firewall. Nothing correlates or helps. Thanks, Rob