[Thinks, what am I doing in at work on a lovely saturday....] Can anyone help me on this?......I mounted a shared directory on my windows machine onto a directory called /jenshare on my linuxbox using smbmount. Then i went home, switched off the windows machine and forgot all about it. Now I have an error coming up right left and centre "File 'jenshare' exists but can not be stat-ed: Input/output error" Doing a ls-l / doesn't show the directory jenshare (I/O error again), however ls -a / does show it. I'm a bit stuffed here....can anyone offer assistance? Thanks. Jenny.