Hey Guys, I have a strange problem. I have a RHFC3 box connected to a Windows 2003 advanced server share via smbmount. This is what my entry looks like in /etc/fstab //datasilo01/tdhcamhsol /mnt/tdhcamhsol smbfs credentials=/root/.smbpasswd,uid=600,gid=501,ttl=500 We run scripts on this share that count the number of images in the directory vs. the number in a text file. But if I do something like ls -R 0058 | grep 'tif' | wc -l I get like 3059 like 8 times out of 10. But it will be off by one or more the other times. Even if I don't use a grep statement and just output it to a file, I've done like a sample of 10 output files and then did a diff on them and it simply missed a tif image name. I thought it might be a cache timing issue, but even after the directory is no longer being added to the count is off sometimes. This is driving me crazy, and it's a critical issue for our scripts to work properly. I've been wondering if I should switch to a CIFS mount instead? Would this solve this kind of issue? I've looked at the network cards for any dropped packets or errors and it's 100% clean. TIA, James