Hi, I have a bunch of SuSE 9.3 machines in a lab. One of them serves out /home to the rest of the machines, both via NFS and with samba. One of my colleagues is having a very strange problem that I can't figure out. I'm hoping that someone can point me in a helpful direction. He's working on a Windows machine, and he mounts his home using samba. On this mounted share, he uses UltraEdit to edit his code on the Windows machine, reading/writing to his home directory (again, samba mounted). When he needs to compile the code, he ssh's into a machine that has his /home NFS mounted. He starts his make and sometimes bad things happen. The shell completely locks. Some processes go into Disk wait state (D - uninterruptible sleep in ps output), and from that point you can't even cd into that directory without it causing the shell to hang. The _machine_ doesn't hang, but you can't do anything in that directory at all. Nothing I can do at that point but to reboot the machine to clear things up, and that doesn't even work right... The machine hangs on shutdown in some random part of the shutdown and the only thing that helps is a power cycle. All of the machines are fresh 9.3 installs, fully updated. The hardware is relatively old x86-based stuff in both the case of the /home NFS server and the machine that is mounting /home where he's compiling. The Windows machine is a W2k machine. I suspect that this is somehow caused by a weird NFS/samba interaction. I'm hoping someone here can offer suggestions about how to find the source of the problem. Thanks. David