I have been struggling with this for weeks now and I can't figure out the answer. I have samba running on site and am using it as a file server. after everyone go's home and loggs out, in the morning some of us have to reconnect after we log in. I have several drives mapped to the samba server and some people connect no problems. it takes a few seconds longer than when they reconnect to the NT and netware servers, but they connect. others will get an error saying couldn't connect do you want to restore the connect ion the next timeyou log in? and they hit yes and then they have to go it and click on th emapped drive and hope it reconnects. otherwise they use a batch file I created, basically for reconnection. IE: net use r: \\sambaserver\directoryshare then they can go about their business. why is this happening. this server is in a domain, and is a wins client for name resolution. so what is happeniong regarding the reconnection status? thanks....I have had this problem for a while now, I just installed some switches a few months ago, would that have anything to do with it? thanks...