Funny.... That is exactly what I just said in an email I sent to Sans 
Digital :)


greg wm wrote:
> it's been a couple years since, but i remember well trying to migrate 
> file service from a w2k server to samba, and the thorny problems that 
> arose, .pst file corruption among them.  things got happier when i just 
> put the .pst files back on the w2k server.  i tried keeping much of the 
> rest of file service on samba, and had fewer problems, consistent with 
> .pst files getting the heaviest hammering.  it seemed that w2k clients 
> would easily give up on samba and fail to complete writes occasionally.  
> and it seemed the samba server would then become inaccessible to that 
> particular w2k client for a period of time.  never any such trouble with 
> the w2k server.