Dear sirs, I am running redhat 8, kernal 2.4.20-28.8smp...I can mount my PC easily enough, but I want to access a plugin USB drive..so I try to mount that but on the USB the disc files are very large e.g. 48 Gb (it is a plugin USB...400 GB) which mounts itself on the PC to the F: i use the simple command on the linux side smbmount "//mozart/f /icy" username=mozart\paul and I get a mount ...hurragh but a simple 'df' seems ok, but the file size list is wrong, and I can access the files, but not to thier full extent...i.e. it reads at the start at the file then looses the plot...but does not crash just goes on and on.... i.e. 'df' //mozart/disk1_(F) 373G 372G 1.5G 100% /icy and a 'll' [root@reformat01 grog]# ll /icy total 15033091789 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 596568336 Sep 1 01:36 201A038.segy -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18446744073056319632 Aug 31 23:39 209C013.segy -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 662579248 Sep 1 00:56 217A003.segy -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18446744073259514512 Sep 1 04:05 225A001.segy -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18446744072717520752 Sep 1 05:27 233A016.segy please can anybody suggest why I cant mount the files and see/use the files easily. Thanks in advance Grog