Hi, I am having some problems configuring samba 1.9.18p1 on Slackware Linux 2.0.30. I have a Linux box a windows NT server configured as pdc, and a win95 OSR2 system. I have compiled using the option in the makefile with flags: FLAGS= -DLINUX -DFAST_SHARE_MODES LIBSM My smb.conf is: [global] browseable = yes workgroup = MLC server string = DIRAC hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. guest account = pcguest log file /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY dns proxy = no #============================ Share Definitions =============================[homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in # the "staff" group [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /public public = yes writable = yes printable no browseable = yes ; write list = @staff Now I cannot browse the samba server, but I can make a connection to the shares using file manager from the NT machine, but not from the Windows 95 machine. I am also puzzled by the behaviour of my nmbd, which exits with the log messages: 01/21/1998 10:56:12 becoming a daemon Opening sockets 137 bind succeeded on port 137 bind succeeded on port 138 open_sockets: Broadcast sockets opened. No interface found for address 192.168.0.3 Derived broadcast address 192.168.0.255 Added interface ip=192.168.0.3 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 bind failed on port 137 socket_addr=192.168.0.3 (Cannot assign requested address) make_subnet: Failed to open nmb socket on interface 192.168.0.3 for port 137. Error was Cannot assign requested address ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting. I cannot find anything else using this port, and it appears from the earlier messages that the port was first opened successfully. My attempt to print to an smb printer on my NT server also failed, and the script smbprint went into an infinite loop. Any help would be appreciated. Derek Clifford derek_clifford@fermi.demon.co.uk