It's been a long time since I did anything like this, but when I did, I used the automounter to get the share mounted. This wasn't ideal (required hard-coding Windows namespace user and password into the automounter conf file), but seemed to be best option available. Then the automounter with -t smbfs seemed to do a good job of keeping the handles from being stale, etc. R _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list