Hi! On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 08:16:46PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > I am more worried about firewall rule changes and similar events > than about broken servers - but the idea of waiting forever on stat > to a server that is never going to respond seems odd. That would be a strange fw rule that allows SMBEcho but not other SMB requests. I think if someone puts up such a silly rule, some pain is deserved :-) Volker -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html