> Any insight appreaced, I'm off to search for answers... I once had a problem with smb shares mounted on a Linux box disconnecting after a certain length of time. my (hackish, but functional) solution, was a cron job to do an 'ls' on the Windows share every few minutes (redirected to /dev/null). this kept me from doing backups of an empty directory. :) Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700