Hello together! I run Samba 3.0.9-2.3 on Suse 9.2. This Server is in an Active Directory Domain, but it is not able to make it a domainmemberserver. So i uses the following configuration: /etc/samba/smb.conf ********************************* [global] security = Server domain logons = no NIS homedir = no encrypt passwords = yes update encrypted = no password server = EMEA guest account = nobody username map = /etc/samba/smbusers # host access security hosts allow = ip-range # browsing workgroup = RABBIT #AD- Domainname domain master = no local master = no preferred master = no os level = 0 # printing disable spoolss = yes load printers = no show add printer wizard = no #other options smb ports = 445 interfaces = eth0 bind interfaces only = yes disable netbios = yes min password length = 8 #file handling keepalive = 30 share modes = yes locking = yes strict locking = yes create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 hide dot files = no #handle european characters #character set = ISO8859-1 #client code page = 850 #Defaults inherit acls = yes inherit permissions = no read only = no browseable = no available = no guest ok = no #============#Shares [Abteilung] browseable = yes available = yes comment = Abteilungsdaten path = /usr/abt/ oplock contention limit = 1 ********************************* This solution works more or less good. My mainproblem: many times a day the message /var/log/messages ********************************* SERVERNAME smbd[28175]: password server not available Jan 25 12:00:28 SERVERNAME smbd[28175]: [2006/01/25 12:00:28, 0] auth/auth_server.c:server_cryptkey(83) ********************************* appears and then noone can access the shares. Resarting samba does not solve the problem. Google was not able to give me a useable result, so i ask you for help. PS: sorry for my poor english grammar!! greets Lucky_dc!