> Mapping to this drive in Windows is a piece of cake. Mounting it in Linux is > a bit more complicated. I have this line in my /etc/fstab file on my FC3 > laptop: > > //hagrid/path/to/music /home/richard/Music smbfs > uid=500,gid=504,fmask=777,password="xxxxxxxx" 0 0 Richard, use an nfs share and mount it with something like the following: musicserver:/shared/directory /mount/point nfsrsize=32768,wsize=32768,auto,soft 0 0 This will greatly increase the performance throughput. And when grandparent poster stops yelling at us maybe he will get some help. John