Hi, About a year ago I was running debian slink with samba. I upgraded to potato (without upgrading my kernel) and noticed a bit later the box was dying. A ps revealed hundreds of nmbd's running and they kept spawning until the system ran out of resources. This was posted to the debian buglist, and it was discovered that this was happening to people still running 2.0.36 kernels. The workaround was to upgrade to 2.2.14. Last week I upgraded to 2.2.17 and the problem returned. The only way around this that I know of is to revert to the old debian package. Here is the info about the two packages: For slink: newport:/cdrom/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/net# dpkg --info ./samba-comm on_2.0.5a-1slink1.deb new debian package, version 2.0. ... Package: samba-common Version: 2.0.5a-1slink1 Section: net Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 Replaces: samba (<= 1.9.18p10-7) Installed-Size: 265 Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org> ...and here is the info on potato: symonds:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-cache show samba-common Package: samba-common Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 3206 Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org> Architecture: i386 Source: samba Version: 2.0.7-3 Replaces: samba (<= 2.0.5a-2) Depends: libpam-modules, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libncurses5, libpam0g, libreadline4 (>= 4.1) I apologize in advance if this is a FAQ of some sort, just hoping someone might have some suggestions. -- Mark grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines.