The first time I connect to any shares on my 3.0.31 Samba setup, it takes 20-30 seconds to open the share. Once it is opened, things run normally with no problems. If I leave the machine and return, the first time I open the drive it does the same. I have tested it with several XP clients. If I use an OSX client or Linux, I never see this problem. I am using a fairly stripped down smb.conf: [global] netbios name = BEEBLEBROX workgroup = NWLSD log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 100 security = user load printers = No hosts allow = 172.17., 127. smb ports = 139 [distfiles] nt acl support = no path = /home/distfiles writable = yes guest ok = no browsable = no valid users = @distfiles create mask = 0755 directory mask = 0755 That is just an example of a share, but it is basically setup the same for all other shares. Any suggestions? I believe it started around 3.0.25 and has continued to happen since. -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://oddprocess.org Gentoo Linux x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165 12:43:41 up 277 days, 3:31, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00