good day to all sambba guru.. im encountering problem witth my installation/configure of samba. after the ./configure and make and make install i do this: TESTING SAMBA SERVER [root@localhost samba]# smbclient -L Hobbit added interface ip=172.16.0.107 bcast=172.16.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 error connecting to 127.0.0.107:139 (Connection refused) Error connecting to 127.0.0.107 (Connection refused) Connection to Hobbit failed CONNECTING TO MY UNIX CLIENT [root@localhost samba]# smbclient //POLMAP/pchome added interface ip=172.16.0.107 bcast=172.16.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 wins_srv_died(): Could not mark WINS server 127.0.0.1 down. Address not found in server list. Connection to POLMAP failed This is the content of my smb.conf after issuing testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf [root@localhost bin]# testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[homes]" Processing section "[printers]" Processing section "[public]" Processing section "[raymndb]" Processing section "[pchome]" Processing section "[myshare]" Loaded services file OK. # Global parameters [global] coding system client code page = 850 code page directory = /usr/share/samba/codepages workgroup = POLMAP netbios name = HOBBIT netbios aliases netbios scope server string = Samba Server interfaces 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 obey pam restrictions = Yes password server smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd root directory pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* passwd chat debug = No username map password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = Yes restrict anonymous = No lanman auth = Yes use rhosts = No log level = 2 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 timestamp logs = Yes debug hires timestamp = No debug pid = No debug uid = No protocol = NT1 large readwrite = No max protocol = NT1 min protocol = CORE read bmpx = No read raw = Yes write raw = Yes nt smb support = Yes nt pipe support = Yes announce version = 4.5 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 unix extensions = No change notify timeout = 60 deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 10 max smbd processes = 0 max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 read size = 16384 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 stat cache size = 50 use mmap = Yes total print jobs = 0 load printers = Yes printcap name = /etc/printcap disable spoolss = No enumports command addprinter command deleteprinter command show add printer wizard = Yes os2 driver map strip dot = No character set mangled stack = 50 stat cache = Yes domain admin group domain guest group 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 = 20 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = True local master = Yes domain master = Auto browse list = Yes enhanced browsing = Yes dns proxy = No wins proxy = No wins server wins support = Yes wins hook kernel oplocks = Yes oplock break wait time = 0 add share command change share command delete share command config file preload lock dir = /var/cache/samba utmp directory wtmp directory utmp = No default service message command dfree command valid chars remote announce remote browse sync socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map = auto.home time offset = 0 NIS homedir = No source environment panic action hide local users = No host msdfs = No winbind uid winbind gid template homedir = /home/%D/%U template shell = /bin/false winbind separator = \ winbind cache time = 15 winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes comment path alternate permissions = No username guest account = nobody invalid users valid users admin users read list write list printer admin force user force group read only = Yes create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 security mask = 0777 force security mode = 00 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 directory security mask = 0777 force directory security mode = 00 inherit permissions = No guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow = 172.16.0. hosts deny status = Yes nt acl support = Yes max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict allocate = No strict sync = No sync always = No write cache size = 0 max print jobs = 1000 printable = No postscript = No printing = lprng 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 use client driver = No default devmode = No printer driver printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def 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 hide unreadable = No delete veto files = No veto files hide files veto oplock files map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes mangled names = No mangled map browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = Yes oplock contention limit = 2 posix locking = Yes strict locking = No share modes = Yes copy include exec preexec close = No postexec root preexec root preexec close = No 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 filemode = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No vfs object vfs options msdfs root = No [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 case sensitive = Yes map archive = No browseable = No delete readonly = Yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba guest ok = Yes printable = Yes browseable = No [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/samba write list = @staff read only = No guest ok = Yes [raymndb] comment = Raymund Service path = /home/raymndb/export valid users = raymndb vvbuenaventura read only = No guest only = Yes [pchome] comment = PC Directories path = /usr/local/pc/%m read only = No [myshare] comment = Polmap shared stuff path = /usr/local/samba/shared valid users = kriz dejojimenez dennis bobsor rcsoriano glaigaya gluisigaya read only = No create mask = 0765 ================sorry for this long email. i really need to post it so uL have idea how tto help my problem to solve.. any help will appreciate very much.. thanks in advance.. kriz