Hi, We're using Samba 2.0.5a compiled for Solaris 2.5.1 with NT domain controllers as authentication servers. Everything works fine but we are seeing some strange NIS traffic. Samba seems to be doing lookups in the password map for share names and machine names with varying case. The global parameters "password level" and "username level" have not been set so should be at their default value of 0. We're connecting from NT clients with SP4 and above. homer -> seh NIS C MATCH ipc$ in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH IPC$ in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH Ipc$ in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH IPC$ in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH ipc$ in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH pc62673 in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH PC62673 in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH Ipc$ in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH zzzmail in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH ZZZMAIL in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH Zzzmail in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key homer -> seh NIS C MATCH zzzmaiL in passwd.byname seh -> homer NIS R MATCH No such key Is this normal behaviour? Why does it need to do it? Can it be turned off? Thanks for any help... Cheers, Jim -- Jim Broughton, jim.broughton@newsint.co.uk Systems Integration, News International Newspapers, London. Tel: +44 (0)171 782 5285 Fax: +44 (0)171 782 3624