All, Was wondering if anyone has got a similar setup to what I've got below and has seen the same behaviour which I've run across... I'm running Samba 2.2.2 on a Solaris 2.6 host, connecting to it via either regular desktop PC's (x86) or Sun Sparc Workstations, also running Solaris but with a Citrix client connection to a Win2K Metaframe XP (not WinXP) server. I've configured and built Samba fine, installed a simple conf file (same as I've used for years...) and it works - for a while. A client can login to their Workstation and crank up a Citrix session. They go to connect to a share on the Samba server or just browse it, and usually it just comes straight up. The next user comes along though, logs in and tries to make a connection in the same way. This time though, they can't make a connection, and Windows responds by prompting for a username and password, even though both the users have valid logins and passwords. Looking at the running processes on the Samba server, (have tried running either as a daemon or via inetd - same results) - it looks like the smbd or nmbd processes are attempting to respawn, but at the same time this confuses the client(s) and all of a sudden no-one can authenticate. Users that one minute were happily connected all of a sudden are prompted for a username and password which doesn't accept. Looking in the log files, nothing is reported about the repeated prompts. I've tried various security = methods in the conf file. Basically how I want to authenticate is back to an NT/Win2K box - however in our network, we run AD on Win2K, and utilise a PDC emulator (currently in mixed mode) to allow backwards compat for other machines whilst everyone gets up to speed with AD. In my conf file, I've tried pointing to this PDC emulator or another local Win2K Domain Controller, and authentication seems to be working fine - that initial time, and then fails once several clients start to hit the Samba server. To fix the problem, I basically need to kill the smbd|nmbd daemons and restart them. Then, from clients, I'm able to connect in again. However, it tends to last only minutes until at least a couple of users attempt to connect back to the server and it knocks itself out. Strange huh. I figured this had to worth a post since I couldn't find much about it anywhere so far. Has anyone seen this style of authentication behaviour before and might know where to begin looking for clues as to what's going on? I have tried both binaries and compiling from the source - have had similar problems, so I think what I've built is OK. Not sure if the problem though is somehow related to the Citrix connection, and the way users are authenticating from different hosts, but effectively from their parent Citrix server (using one IP address) back to the Samba server, but with a unique session. I'm running Citrix Metaframe XP FR1 on a Win2K Server (SP2). Please cc any ideas to: tim@iinet.net.au Regards, -- Tim Carlier, B.Sc, CNE, CCA | E-Mail : tim@iinet.net.au Mobile: +61 409 446 604 | WWW : http://www.ii.net/~tim/