We encountered a stability issue last week on one of 2.2.8 servers running on RedHat 7.1 (2.4.19-13 kernel with SGI XFS patches). It appears we exceeded the max files and kernel setting, which resulted in having more than 300 zombie smbd processes that we could not kill without a reboot. Increasing the value of 'file-max' in /proc/sys/fs from the default of 8192 to 32768 seems to have cured the problem for now. But I'd like to know if there are some guidelines for tuning samba and linux for stability and performance. I've applied most of the tips for Samba I think, but am not certain about the linux config. How many of you are running Samba 2.2.8 on Linux with 300+ concurrent users? What kinds of changes have you made to improve stability? Thanks. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Shawn Wright, I.T. Manager Shawnigan Lake School http://www.sls.bc.ca swright@sls.bc.ca