We are experiencing this same issue at BlueCross; same versions as well. David We have a Samba server connecting to a Windows 2000 Domain controller for authentication purposes using windbind. We have had a couple of network outages recently and the other servers, which are Windows 2000 member servers seem to resume normal authenication when the network returns, but the Samba server does not recover until samba is restarted. We have had this problem when the domain server was down for maintainence, so it is not specifically related it the network interface going down. Is this behaviour limitation of samba, or is there an option I can set to continue retrying, or is it a bug? Is there a workaround? Any information would be useful. We are using Samba 3.0.11 suse 9.0 packages from samba.org. Please find at the bottom of the email the last few log entries in case it is of some use. Thanks in advance, Olly Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm