well after so much work of trouble shooting and still not being able to consistanly log in, in the morings, after a night of noone logging into the samba box, I disabled the nt domain feature, and just started to use it as a member server. basically user security, self authenticating instead of going to the PDC to authenticate. this started to seem like it was going top work. faster lgging in was happening. but then again, after the night, every morning, still noone can login except after multiple trys. so I put alittle hash/bang in the init.d directory to the effect of: #!/etc/rc.d/init.d/restart the restart file is basically this: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart I then went into crontab -u root -e and made a new crontab for daily to execute the hash bash at 6:30 am so that it restarts samba at 6:30 am and then everyone comes in at 7ish. well even after that they still can't login successfully. it seems that I am the only one that can log in in the morings successfully......also they are on the other side of the building and go thru a switch, if that makes any difference..... attached is an output of my smb.conf file.........feel free to give me any help at all, lest I lose more haor than I already have, thanks...larry clark -------------- next part -------------- Load smb config files from /etc/smb.conf doing parameter security = user doing parameter encrypt passwords = yes doing parameter smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd doing parameter socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 doing parameter interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 127. doing parameter wins server = 192.168.0.11 Processing section "[printers]" doing parameter comment = All Printers doing parameter path = /var/spool/samba doing parameter browseable = no doing parameter guest ok = no doing parameter writable = no doing parameter printable = yes Processing section "[tmp]" doing parameter comment = Temporary file space doing parameter path = /tmp doing parameter read only = no doing parameter public = yes doing parameter browseable = yes Processing section "[public]" doing parameter comment = Public Stuff doing parameter path = /home/samba doing parameter public = yes doing parameter read only = no doing parameter browseable = yes Processing section "[auto]" doing parameter comment = Autoselect Database doing parameter path = /auto doing parameter read only = no doing parameter public = no doing parameter browseable = yes doing parameter create mask = 0765 doing parameter directory mask = 0765 pm_process() returned Yes lp_servicenumber: couldn't find homes Loaded services file OK. Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions # Global parameters [global] workgroup = DISCFLO netbios name = PENGUIN netbios aliases = server string = Samba Server interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 127. bind interfaces only = No security = USER encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = No allow trusted domains = Yes hosts equiv = min passwd length = 5 map to guest = Never null passwords = No password server = smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd root directory = / passwd program = /bin/passwd passwd chat = *old*password* %o\n *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed* passwd chat debug = No username map = password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = No restrict anonymous = No use rhosts = No log level = 10 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 timestamp logs = Yes protocol = NT1 read bmpx = No read raw = Yes write raw = Yes nt smb support = Yes nt pipe support = Yes nt acl support = Yes announce version = 4.2 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 65535 name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast max packet = 65535 max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No change notify timeout = 60 deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 10 max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 read prediction = No read size = 16384 shared mem size = 1048576 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 stat cache size = 50 load printers = Yes printcap name = /etc/printcap printer driver file = /etc/printers.def strip dot = No character set = mangled stack = 50 coding system = client code page = 850 stat cache = Yes domain groups = domain admin group = domain guest group = domain admin users = domain guest users = machine password timeout = 604800 add user script = delete user script = logon script = logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive = logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = No os level = 0 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = No local master = Yes domain master = No browse list = Yes dns proxy = Yes wins proxy = No wins server = 192.168.0.11 wins support = No kernel oplocks = Yes ole locking compatibility = Yes oplock break wait time = 10 smbrun = /usr/bin/smbrun config file = preload = lock dir = /var/lock/samba default service = message command = dfree command = valid chars = remote announce = remote browse sync = socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map = time offset = 0 unix realname = No NIS homedir = No panic action = comment = path = alternate permissions = No revalidate = No username = guest account = nobody invalid users = valid users = admin users = read list = write list = force user = force group = read only = Yes create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 security mask = 037777777777 force security mode = 037777777777 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 directory security mask = 037777777777 force directory security mode = 037777777777 guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. hosts deny = status = Yes max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict sync = No sync always = No print ok = No postscript = No printing = bsd print command = lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = lpq -P%p lprm command = lprm -P%p %j lppause command = lpresume command = queuepause command = queueresume command = printer name = printer driver = NULL printer driver location = default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangle case = No mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes delete veto files = No veto files = hide files = veto oplock files = map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes mangled names = Yes mangled map = browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes fake oplocks = No locking = Yes mangle locks = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = No oplock contention limit = 2 strict locking = No share modes = Yes copy = include = exec = postexec = root preexec = root postexec = available = Yes volume = fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes dont descend = magic script = magic output = delete readonly = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba print ok = Yes browseable = No [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = No guest ok = Yes [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/samba read only = No guest ok = Yes [auto] comment = Autoselect Database path = /auto read only = No create mask = 0765 directory mask = 0765