I'm running Red Hat AS 2.1, kernel level 2.4.9-e.16, with these samba packages: samba-common-2.2.7-3.21as samba-client-2.2.7-3.21as samba-2.2.7-3.21as samba-swat-2.2.7-3.21as. I have 2 real NICs, and configured a virtual interface of off eth0 (eth0:1). Some other services I'm running are listening on port 137, socket address 0.0.0.0. thus nmbd is unable to bind to it. Can I force nmbd to bind to the virtual ip I have assigned on eth0:1? As it is only smbd is up. Noam. _________________________________________ Noam Syrkin, System Engineer Actona Technologies, Inc. V. +1(408) 399-8602 C. +1(408) 772-2231 http://www.actona.com