Hi! I have a new machine on a network: kemmer: New Linux box (kernel 2.0.36. Samba 1.9.18p10) torres: old Linux box (kernel 2.0.36. Samba 1.9.18p10) janeway: Windows NT 4.0 SP4. torres and janeway are performing flawlessly, I can access both machine's shares from the other one. kemmer is new and can't access DNS yet. Thus, I have to use the -I switch to smbclient and smbmount to access shares from kemmer and torres. kemmer can: - access shares on janeway via smbmount and smbclient - access shares on torres via smbclient. However, accessing shares on torres via smbmount doesn't work. The error message is "smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready =NULL", "Mount error: Invalid Argument", "Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons". The manual page (including the referred man pages for smbclient and smbmnt and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt) don't offer any help in debugging this. User name and password seem to be ok (as I can use them with smbclient), so is smbmount (as janeway shares can be smbmounted). When an attempt to smbmount a torres share fails, torres doesn't log anything. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29