Hi List, I performed some surgery on the Samba Makefile to make it build with shared libraries on Linux: -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 176118 Aug 18 00:06 /usr/local/lib/libsmbd.so -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 23602 Aug 18 00:06 /usr/local/lib/libsmbparm.so -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 130105 Aug 18 00:06 /usr/local/lib/libsmbutil.so $ ls -l /usr/local/samba/bin/ total 363 -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 1702 Jul 22 12:20 addtosmbpass -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 97064 Aug 18 00:07 nmbd -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 23492 Aug 18 00:07 nmblookup -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 99372 Aug 18 00:07 smbclient -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 73464 Aug 18 00:07 smbd -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 17000 Aug 18 00:07 smbpasswd -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 3392 Aug 18 00:07 smbrun -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 18196 Aug 18 00:07 smbstatus -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 4189 Jul 22 12:20 smbtar -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 12036 Aug 18 00:07 testparm -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 10952 Aug 18 00:07 testprns $ ldd nmbd libsmbd.so => /usr/local/lib/libsmbd.so libsmbutil.so => /usr/local/lib/libsmbutil.so libsmbparm.so => /usr/local/lib/libsmbparm.so libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.4.23 It does little for memory usage, but I think it looks nice ;-) If anyone's interested, I'll post the diffs (1.9.17a5) to the list. Alles van die beste, Stefaan ___________________________________________________________________ Stefaan A Eeckels (Stefaan.Eeckels@ecc.lu) "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew S Tanenbaum ___________________________________________________________________