I am experiencing annoying problems. Minimum 2 times per hour samba is stopping serving as WINS serve. BOSS is my PDC: boss> nmblookup BOSS no results found boss>net lookup dc (nothing) also other computers using BOSS as wins server cannot find it andalso a domain controller. after stopping and starting samba it works for some time. my smb.conf tdi.kill-9.pl/smb.conf -- Regards, Dariusz Dwornikowski Network Administrator Cognifide Poland