  Using the Uves echelle spectrograph at the ESO VLT, we observed the
absorption line spectrum of the QSO 0103-260 in the Fors Deep Field. In
addition to the expected Ly-alpha forest lines, we detected at least 16 metal
absorption systems with highly different ionization levels in the observed
spectral range. The redshifts of the metal absorption systems are strongly
correlated with the redshift distribution of the high-z galaxies in the Fors
Deep Field and with the strength (but not the number density) of the Ly-alpha
forest lines. Both the metal systems and the galaxies show clustering at least
up to the QSO emission line redshift of 3.365, but only few of these galaxy
accumulations seem to form bound systems.
