Here's an odd one. I'm trying to do a backup from a machine running Win2K Pro to a Linux machine, via Samba. I tried it using both cp and rsync, and in each case the copy froze with various "smb_add_request" failures. On further investigation I isolated the file that was causing the problem -- the same file under both rsync and cp. So I tried copying that single file explicitly and encountered the same freeze. I also determined that doing the same copy onto a different Windows machine instead of onto the Linux machine was trouble-free. The file itself was a .ppt file with a bunch of pictures in it, though I doubt if the actual content matters. The only distinguishing thing was its size: 2.8 MB, which makes it a large file but hardly a spectacularly large file. None of the earlier files in the batch copy were that big. A month or so I thought I had my backups working perfectly, which leads me to suspect that I've accidentally updated to a stinky version of some software component or other. (I'm running SuSE 9.1.) And just today I encountered another problem that popped up after no apparent change: my Windows machines are inaccessible under Konqueror using the "smb:/" URL, even though that was working just fine a few days ago. The "network is inaccessible" complaints have to be bogus because I can view the Windows machine with smbclient and can also mount directories on that machine via Samba and then access them under Linux. All thoughts and advice are appreciated. Paul