Hello all - I'm getting a weird error message on a custom system I'm trying to setup using SAMBA. The box is running a slightly modified 2.0.37 linux kernel to run the entire OS out of a huge (128 MB) ramdrive. This particular box will be running for years before anything should fail in it. Anyhow everything works fine so far, except neither smbd or nmbd will start with the following error: unable to get hostname <whatever hostname I try>. I've even used localhost as the hostname, but neither smbd or nmbd will run. I should note that this particular setup uses stripped down C libraries, but the system I compiled it on uses the same ones (2.0.7 or 6 I believe.) So I'm at a loss as to why I can't get these daemons to start. All my interfaces are working fine and there doesn't appear to be any other problems, except getting these daemons to start. Can anyone help me out here? I'd really appreciate it. TIA, Jake Kruse UNIX/NT Network Administrator Fox Financial Services Corp.