Hi, I've couple of issues with a samba server (v3.0.10) running on Solaris 10. 1. On a linux client v3.0.24, when I 'tail -f' a file mounted via samba, I'm seeing junk(lot of ^@ characters) being printed along with the text from file. It's not a problem with the 'tail' program itself as the same behaviour is seen while using follow mode in 'less' as well. 2. On a windows client, using cygwin, I can not follow the file with tail at all. 'tail -f' just stops after printing last few lines of the file. Some one help please. Could it be some setting on the server which we need to change? Many thanks suds.