hey all, After reading quite a bit on samba I tried to compile the newest release on a stock rh4.2 P5 system and I get the following error after typing make: ----- Using CFLAGS = -O -DSMBLOGFILE="/var/log/log.smb" -DNMBLOGFILE="/var/log/log.nmb" -DCONFIGFILE="/etc/smb.conf" -DLMHOSTSFILE="/usr/local/samba/lib/lmhosts" -D WEB_ROOT="/usr/local/samba" -DLOCKDIR="/var/lock/subsys" -DSMBRUN="/usr/bin/smbrun" -DCODEPAGEDIR="/usr/local/samba/lib/codepages" -DWORKGROUP="APT" -DGUEST_ACCOUNT="nobody" -DDRIVERFILE="/usr/local/samba/lib/printers.def" -DLINUX -DFAST _SHARE_MODES -DUSE_PAM -DSMB_PASSWD="/usr/bin/smbpasswd" -DSMB_PASSWD_FILE="/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd" Using LIBS = -ldl -lpam Compiling util.c cc: ": No such file or directory util.c:0: unterminated string or character constant util.c:0: possible real start of unterminated constant make: *** [util.o] Error 1 --------- and it bails out. I really dont know what's going on. Why cant it find a file and why is it looking for a file named ":?? Its probably pretty simple, but I'm not real good with makefiles. Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks, jim