Hi, I have an OpenVMS machine running pathworks shares. Working OK for Windows clients. On Redhat use mount -t smbfs to create mount point. On VMS side can see a non-guest connection from administrator. On Linux box I navigate from the mount point to a directory with some text files. When I type "cat test.txt" I get nothing. If I re-mount with ttl=10000 and try the same thing again, same thing happens but if I do ls - l first and then cat test.txt it SOMETIMES returns the contents of the file. This only works with ttl=10000. Anyone seen this type of problem before ? Cheers.