I run 3 linux box at my university, and the rest of the machines are all NT boxes. I have had samba running on all three machines just fine for almost one year now. But this summer, I have set up one of the machines as a DNS server for our intranet. The DNS server is working fine, but samba has stopped working. I have gone through every single test in the DIAGNOSIS.TXT, but nothing really helped. When I try to map to the DNS sever from a WINDOWS NT machine I get a Semaphore error. And when I try to map from a linux machines it hangs for about 30 seconds and says Session failed. not able to connect to *SMBSERVER. I have gone through all sorts of palces, and I cannot make it work. Oh, the funny thing is thatif I stop the named daemon, then all the mapping starts working automatically..... BTW, I am running RH 6.0 Thanks Anderson Silva