Hi i have a big quantity of problems with Winbindd/squid ... it's very unstable on my proxy server and don't know why ... first problems: 1- I have restart my PDC and after restart, my winbindd denied all access and put a INVALID_COMPUTER_NAME ... i restart winbind and that's work now ... winbindd can't contact another PDC ? he can't recontact automatiquely the PDC without a manual restart ? 2- In the log, i have a big quantity of (into logh.nmbd): [2005/06/06 12:27:18, 2] nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:wins_registration_timeout(184) wins_registration_timeout: WINS server 172.16.1.15 timed out registering IP 10.206.1.251 into squid, i have a lot of "TCP DENIED" and one line after a acceptation .. i don't understand why this is very unstable .... My config: smb.conf [global] workgroup = SODIAAL netbios name = OPHELYSSRV1 server string = Ophelys Server Srv1 printcap name = cups load printers = yes printer admin = @adm log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1500 log level = 3 map to guest = bad user security = domain password server = * encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 winbind separator = / winbind use default domain = yes template homedir = /home/%D/%U socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 interfaces = 10.206.1.251/24 local master = no name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast host wins server = 172.16.1.15,172.16.1.27,172.17.1.14 dns proxy = no i use Winbind only for proxy auth ntlm with wbinfo_group.pl ... no for file server