Sorry to be unclear but .. No I'm not using samba to transport files I have an Oracle 9 instance = running on NT=20 that has its dbf files hosted on linux via Samba -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eric Buddelmeijer Sent: 22 November 2004 12:03 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Samba and 10g - and NT I think you missed the upgrade to 10G. I believe the rman files in 10G = are transportable (and usable) over different operating systems. In 9.2 they = are not. And although you use samba for transporting files, oracle knows = nothing about that and creates NT-files when you make a backup and tries to read Linux files when restoring the database.=20 If you do upgrade to 10G, you can also use transportable tablespaces = which are transportable over operating systems (only in 10, not in 9.2) if the tablespaces are 'self contained'. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/10gdba/week16_10gdba.html = for a first look on the TTS feature. Maybe the answer to your last question is yes, rethink ;-). Eric Buddelmeijer. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l