I use a more or less standard RedHat 4.1 install. After installation, my /etc/hosts looked like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 192.168.0.222 hccasd0.net.hcc.nl hccasd0 It seems that the "localhost.localdomain" part confuses sys_gethostbyname(). When smbd primes nmdb, it does a name lookup for localhost but then it hangs. I did specify a domainname during the installation (.net.hcc.nl). The problem is solved when I change .localdomain into net.hcc.nl. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a RedHat configuration problem? Jacco -- Jacco de Leeuw |Fac.Phys,Math.&Comp Sc. |mailto:leeuw@wins.uva.nl J.C. van Wessemstr. 54 |University of Amsterdam| +31(0)756352068 1501VM Zaandam Holland |carol.wins.uva.nl/~leeuw Jean-Luc Picard did more for bald men than toupets do...