Hi!I've been using samba on my DEC boxes for years, and the last year (NT4) with encryption (libdes-3.14). This has worked fine. So I compiled it up on my HP box (10.20), no sweat, everything works cool. But then a few users start using ataman rsh daemons on their NT boxes. This works fine when using the NT boxes with the DEC servers but the HP boxes fail after 2-3 accesses. After some debugging it seems getpwnam() returns NULL for a perfectly good call after a few calls. So I put in endpwent() here and there, OK, this helps,. now I can do 27 accesses before it fails (example of "access": 'rsh NTBOX dir x:") Ok, what's the problem? errno says 9, i.e. EBADF. but there are still file descriptors available (i.e. those have not been allocated and not freed), so there are 2 possibilities: 1) HP's getpwnam is broken 2) samba code messes up getpwnam's static data somehow.... The same behaviour has been seen with 1.9.16p10 and 1.9.17p2, and also libdes3-23. So.... has anybody else seen this ? should I look at HP for a fix or is this a samba bug? Regards, Harald