Hi there, though I am not a newbie in SAMBA issues I wonder if someone could give me some advice: I set up a SAMBA server to authenticate against an NT-PDC. The number of clients is appr. 500. SAMBA is running on Solaris2.6 on a SUN Ultra250 (no perfomance problems on that side, I guess :-) ) The problem is, that I ?ve got far too much open sockets connected to the PDC even minutes after the authentication has benn done when I do e.g. a ?netstat -a?. Is there any way to force the ?authentication-connections? to be terminated after the password is validated, or did I just miss something about the configuration ? Or is that by any chance a ?normal behaviour? of the NT-box (it wouldn?t surprise me ...) Any hints ? Thanx ///Michael