Hi, I have seen something that could be a problem with the behavior of nmbd in 1.9.18alpha13 and 14. What happens is that sometimes nmbd does not shutdown after receiving a SIGTERM signal. For example, look at this sequence of events: zeus:/usr/src# ps ax|grep [ns]mbd 693 ? S 0:09 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D 24054 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D zeus:/usr/src# killall nmbd zeus:/usr/src# ps ax|grep [ns]mbd 693 ? S 0:09 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D 24054 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D zeus:/usr/src# killall -9 nmbd zeus:/usr/src# ps ax|grep [ns]mbd zeus:/usr/src# First of all, see the PID's of both nmbd processes. If one nmbd is forking the other then their PID's should be very similar but they aren't. See also how when nmbd is sent a SIGTERM signal (killall nmbd) the process does not die and a SIGKILL (killall -9 nmbd) is needed to get rid of the problem. Is it me doing something wrong or this should not be happening? Thanks, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645