Hi, I was set up smb 2.0.7 comes with mandrake 7.2. I have encountered with some wey strange thing. Samba starts normailly and works ok. But after some idle time ie (no connections) I gotadded interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe. session request to FRPCW000014 failed (code 0) read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe. session request to *SMBSERVER failed (code 0) for smbclient -L localhost Service dies? I have no clue, Any help are wery much welcome. regards: Ferenc