Howdy again, so now I am trying to get a feel for the possiblities and requirements to setup a samba server farm to let me have high availbility for failure redunduncy for the SMB shares. Any one done this? Requires two exact servers (exact being duplicate hardware and software) right or no? Everything I have read about (the HA HOWTO) is regarding NFS, different for SMB shares? Better idea? Basically again if one of the servers that contains a SMB share that hold data for a real-time data gathering system dies another SMB server will take its place and allow the SMB share to continue to be used for the real-time gathering, all without human intervention. I don't ask for much :) Any links, info, rude noises and/or stange looks would be appreciated. Regards, Steven Hildreth Information Technology Manager Aprotex Corporation, http:\\www.aprotex.com "Proven Property Protection Since 1952" -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.