Hi, We're running Windows'95 on our PCs, with our Samba File server a Sun Ultra 2. Recently we found that printing to our remote printers from our PCs was failing intermittently. Printing would sometimes require password verification, other times not, then print jobs would be queued, showing up in the print spooler, but would not print. This started occuring about the time I made some changes in the smb.conf file, changing the name of our server from Samba Server to FileServer and changing our password server to jabba ( password server= jabba ), the Ultra 2. Evidently the lack of a space between "server" and "=" makes a difference! So, I changed: password server= jabba to password server = jabba This is the only thing that has been modified on the FileServer config since working on this. We are now getting the password verification as we should and printing is working again smoothly. Is there a way to stop and restart the Samba server without rebooting the machine? I tried a kill -HUP on the process but that didn't work. Yet the change I made did take effect when printing was requested. I want to investigate this a bit further as I'm wondering if the smb.conf file is read with each new session to the FileServer? I can't find anything in the docs or FAQ. Can anyone shed any light on this one? I thought it was only read when the system rebooted or the server was restarted. Kitty --Kitty Ferguson System Administrator - CSMT ferguson@hao.ucar.edu NCAR - High Altitude Observatory tel: (303)497-1556 P.O. Box 3000 fax: (303)497-1589 Boulder, CO 80307-3000