Can anyone offer some advice,

My CentOS server keeps crashing and as far as i can tell its caused by samba. It will run for weeks with no probs as a web server, game server, dns etc etc but as soon as i start to browse its shared files it will run quite happily for a while but then all of a sudden to fall over and i have to reboot it as everything stops responding. I can browse the shared files occasionally and its fine, but if i do alot of file transferring and changing directory alot it all goes belly up. (by alot i mean i have probably used it 5 times this morning and transfered a total of around 20mb and its gone down twice, the shared dir's do have alot of small files in them though)

I have checked the log files and cant really see anything wrong. Is there something i should be looking for?

Do you know what process is causing the crashes and if so can you set it to dump core when it fails?

Also when you say everything dies can you still SSH into the system or has that died as well as the console.

Oh and you definition of a lot is nothing, I've seen SAMBA deal with far more than that.

Is the log file maxing out the disk space on a partition?