Hi all, first I want to say thank you in advance for any help provided. I've got a Linux box running Debian (5.0 I think). The box has a few Windows shares mounted locally as type CIFS using 'mount -t cifs' and runs 4 or 5 Perl scripts daily via cron. At some point yesterday 2 of the shares that one of the Perl script uses became corrupted, maybe by the Perl script itself but I am not sure at this point. An ls -l shows: d????????? ? ? ? ? ? share1 d????????? ? ? ? ? ? share2 Is anyone familiar with the cause of this and how to prevent it from happening in the future? I am seeing references to a buffer overflow exploit on CIFS shares on google, am I heading in the right direction? Thanks. Erick