I've encountered a new problem that occurred during installation. It happened identically on new installs for both Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 and Red Hat 6.0. These files did not get created: SHARE_MEM_FILE, SHARE_MEM_FILE.processes, and STATUS..LCK. I'm using the smb.conf from another working system that has the identical share layout. The default Samba install was 2.0.3 for both distributions. I tried upgrading and even removing and reinstalling 2.0.5a with exactly the same behavior. The missing files are not created. I copied them from another working box Samba started. Sometimes shares are visible and then vanish later. The only logs that get written are: log.smb and log.nmb. I have several other boxes running the same Red Hat 6.0 distribution, and Samba 2.0.5a. These were upgraded from RH 5.2 and have never had problems. Any suggestions? TIA Glenn Scherb Midwest Research Institute 425 Volker Boulevard Kansas City, Missouri 64110 gscherb@mriresearch.org http://www.mriresearch.org Phone: (816)753-7600 x1806 FAX: (816)753-5359 Page: (816)990-8513 pagegscherb@mriresearch.org