Having tried all the hints in DIAGNOSIS.txt, and having no success, and being unable to decrypt the error codes (does anyone have a list of these?) I send this to you all in the hope you can figure it out. FYI: I'm running 1.9.18p8, upgraded from 1.9.16p9. I got the exact same errors on both versions. I'm running debug level 5 to try and find some clue to the problem. I did have samba running fine, but I moved it across machines and it no longer works, and nothing I do seems to help it at all. The IP addresses haven't changed between machines, though, and just to be sure I deleted the browse.dat and wins.dat files. I choke on step 3 of the diagnosis. I get the error "your server software is being unfriendly". OK, run testparm through again - no problems I can detect. There are no missing files or directories that I can discover - everything specified in the Makefile and testparm output exists and is accessable to root. Just on that, a suggestion for next release - a debug message to indicate is something can't be found. The nmbd log file has an anomaly - every time nmbd says it's sending a host announcement or broadcasting the browse list or whatever, it lists the subnet as being 192.168.2.1 (which is the IP of the server) with the correct mask. I've got interfaces = 192.168.2.1/24 in smb.conf, and the smbd log file says "Added interface ip = 192.168.2.1 bcast = 192.168.2.255" etc. Would this apparent discrepancy between nmbd's subnet and smbd's bcast addresses make a difference? Anyway, onto less circumspect areas. when I try "smbclient -L gateway" (or smbclient -L 192.168.2.1 for that matter) it says its adding the interface, resolving the name, connecting to the right IP, connects, sends a session request, then "Session request failed (0,0) with myname=GATEWAY destname=GATEWAY", then "Unspecified error 0x0" then "Your server software is being unfriendly" then it exits. In the log file, we have such things as "Serverzone = -36000", which I think is a bit queer, (the negative number is what shakes me), there's a "netbios connect: name1=GATEWAY name2=GATEWAY", then "Trying username gatewaY" (which I feel must provide some clue but for the life of me I can't figure out what) and then "init msg_type 0x81 msg_flags=0x0". Then comes a "recieve_smb error (Broken pipe) exiting". Since the numbers involved mean nothing to me, I can only hand all the relevant data over to the list and hope you all can make some sense of it. If you need any more info, don't hesitate to let me know. I'm willing to do anything to get this thing going again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer | Technophile, programmer, and old style hacker. mpalmer@sia.net.au | E-mail me for my PGP key.