My debian samba server 'Jerry' is running in a windows 2000 workgroup called 'METATRON'. Jerry has kernel-version 2.2.17. I use the samba server for 10 printers. Jerry has two network cards. My problem is that i could not connect after few hours to Jerry via samba. Telnet and ping is possible. If I change smbd-status to run as daemon into start from inetd it will work for few hours. But after a few hours i have the same problem, an i mu?t change smbd back to daemon to see Jerry again in my workgroup. I think something in my smb.conf file is wrong. Can someone help me. I have not much know-how about linux and it's my first samba installation. Sorry for my bad english :-) My smb.conf file: [global] workgroup = METATRON server string = Samba Jerry encrypt passwords = Yes debug level = 10 map to guest = Bad User guest ok = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY #log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m os level = 69 dns proxy = No printing = bsd load printers = yes preferred master = no announce as = Win95 local master = no #interfaces = 192.168.2.194/24, 192.168.4.194/24 #erlaubt nur netz 4 und 5 #hosts allow = 192.168.2.0/24 , 192.168.4.0/24 [Printers] ... !!! Thank You !!! Jan Franken