I compiled samba-1.9.18p10 under solaris-2.6 with gcc-2.8.1. After compilation and installation, I tries to start up samba and was surprised to find that the smbd didn't start up. I tried to restart with debug level 10 and found the following messages in log.smb: Adding chars 0xe7 0xe8 (l->u = True) (u->l = True) Adding chars 0x9c 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) 1998/11/26 16:05:25 loaded services 1998/11/26 16:05:25 becoming a daemon bind succeeded on port 139 open_sockets: listen: Bad file number Closing connections By the way, I compiled samba with and without pam, but that doesn't seem to make a great difference. Thanks a lot for your help -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andries Algera CSR - IBAMA SAIN L4, Lote 4, Ed. IBAMA Sede 70800.200 Brasilia / DF BRASIL ph: +5561 316-1326 316-1453 fax:+5561 223-7108 --------------------------------------------------------------------