During the night I mount a Win2K share using the -t cifs option and tar/gzip files across from the Etch/Samba 3 server to the Windows server. The kern.log is showing the following errors - could someone point me towards an explanation please? May 2 02:00:45 psctpdc kernel: CIFS VFS: close with pending writes May 2 05:12:04 psctpdc kernel: CIFS VFS: close with pending writes May 3 01:54:49 psctpdc kernel: CIFS VFS: close with pending writes May 3 02:56:55 psctpdc kernel: CIFS VFS: close with pending writes May 3 06:48:13 psctpdc kernel: CIFS VFS: close with pending writes Thanks, Kevin