Hi, we had upgraded our SAMBA PDC from 3.0.14 to 3.0.22 on a Gentoo system. Now we have problems with peculiar spwaning of too many "nmbd" processes. In smb.conf WINS support is activated, so I would expect two nmb processes. But as you can see in the process list, during SAMBA is running after some minutes another nmbd child is spawned. I tracked down the problem to one example: We have one primary domain ITCAMPUS, our PDC is BAIKONUR. PIONEER is an ubuntu host running samba 3.0.22, WINS server disabled. As you can see from the following snippet of nmbd.log nmbd on BAIKONUR tries to resolve PIONEER, first per WINS then via DNS lookup and dies. Afterwards I added PIONEER to our LDAP backend (serves to SAMBA+DNS+DHCP) and spawning ends. We have several windows hosts in our network, not every guest host is resolvable via DNS. So every time a foreign WINDOWS host with its own WORKGROUP is joining our network I expect new nmbd spawning. We never had such problems with samba 3.0.14, any ideas are appreciated? thx (Hint: Process list and nmbd.log are taken from different days.) greetings, Martin P.S. another question: What causes this? (also in bigger nmbd.log snippet below) BAIKONUR as WINS server don't recognises itself? ... nmbd[15468]: ITCAMPUS(1) current master browser = UNKNOWN nmbd[15468]: BAIKONUR 40099b2b (Samba Server 3.0.22) ... # /etc/smb.conf [global] ... domain logons = Yes os level = 254 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = yes name resolve order = lmhosts wins hosts bcast ... # nmbd.log (LOGLEVEL 10) nmbd[15468]: ITCAMPUS(1) current master browser = BAIKONUR nmbd[15468]: BAIKONUR 400c9b2b (Samba Server 3.0.22) nmbd[15468]: PROMETHEUS 40011003 () nmbd[15468]: TRANSPLUTO 40011003 (J?rg) nmbd[15468]: LEDA 40011203 (R16) nmbd[15468]: XPGSX 40011003 () nmbd[15468]: KALLISTO 40011403 () nmbd[15468]: XPVM 40011003 () nmbd[15468]: dump_workgroups() nmbd[15468]: dump workgroup on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET: netmask=172.16.x.xx: nmbd[15468]: TEMP(5) current master browser = MESSE-PC-1 nmbd[15468]: MSHOME(4) current master browser = PIONEER nmbd[15468]: ARBEITSGRUPPE(3) current master browser = BISONDEMO nmbd[15468]: MSXNET(2) current master browser = MSX nmbd[15468]: ITCAMPUS(1) current master browser = UNKNOWN nmbd[15468]: BAIKONUR 40099b2b (Samba Server 3.0.22) nmbd[15468]: find_workgroup_on_subnet: workgroup search for ITCAMPUS on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET: found. nmbd[15468]: find_workgroup_on_subnet: workgroup search for ITCAMPUS on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET: found. nmbd[15468]: Initiating DMB<->DMB sync with PIONEER(0.0.0.0) nmbd[15650]: Initiating browse sync for MSHOME to PIONEER(0.0.0.0) nmbd[15650]: no entry for PIONEER#20 found. nmbd[15650]: resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name PIONEER<0x20> nmbd[15650]: getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost nmbd[15650]: getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 192.168.xxx.x HOUSTON nmbd[15650]: getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 172.16.x.xx GSX nmbd[15650]: resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name PIONEER<0x20> nmbd[15650]: wins_srv_is_dead: 127.0.0.1 is dead nmbd[15650]: resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name PIONEER<0x20> # ps faux root 32085 ... 00:59 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D root 32092 ... 00:59 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/smbd -D root 676 ... 06:37 0:01 \_ /usr/sbin/smbd -D ... root 32087 ... 00:59 0:05 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D root 32088 ... 00:59 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/nmbd -D root 1056 ... 08:05 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/nmbd -D root 30865 ... 08:36 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/nmbd -D root 31055 ... 09:21 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/nmbd -D root 31271 ... 10:11 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/nmbd -D root 32090 ... 00:59 0:00 /usr/sbin/winbindd root 32091 ... 00:59 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/winbindd root 32551 ... 03:08 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/winbindd