Just to make a positive remark for a difference: I rebuilt my nice little test-system today. It?s a 350 MHz Pentium II (in words: TWO) with 640 MB of RAM, good old ASUS mainboard, 3com NIC ... nice oldschool stuff ... It was set up once ago using a copy of Suse 7.x, upgraded to 8.2 Pro, then I took hold of it. Now it runs a linux-2.6.0-test9 kernel, hosts a Samba 3.0.0 PDC (with OpenLDAP, for sure), and does the backup via Amanda 2.4.4p1-snapshot-sumthin .... Until today it contained two harddisks, 80G and 20G, today I added another 20G left over from the PI 133 (in words: ONE) I configured as ADSL-gateway. Massive repartitioning and data-moving necessary. Temporary moving data to the not-so-shiny-anymore WinXP-box next to it. P IV (in words: FOUR) 2.66 GHz, half a gig`o`ram, 120 GB hdd, ... Movin large amounts of videofiles from and to the sambabox. --- The XP-box gets slow and unresponsive. Sambabox opens another shell without takin too much notice. Seems like I hear XP-box coughing under the desk ... Sambabox crispy and awake. --- Thank you, Samba-developers. Ok, maybe the kernel does its work, too... Or: Sure, the kernel does its work fine. But Samba definitely kicks my ass again and again. Just to let you know. ;-) Stefan G. Weichinger btw: There was no question asked in this posting.