Please reply directly to me and I will summarize. Hi gurus, I'm running into a 'difficult' problem relating Samba and getting a 'login:' prompt. When I enable 'hosts: dns nis files' in the nsswitch.conf file, smbd will hang during start up. I've enabled debugging level 100, but nothing interesting shows up in the logs. More importantly though, I have a startup script that starts Samba up. When I enable it, no 'login:' prompt shows up at all. It seems like somehow smbd grabs hold of some library (probably libnsl.a) and doesn't let go. When I try to SSH in, a similar problem happens and on the console it says "Authentication timeout" as the PAM error message. So in summary, I'm locked out of my system, unless I boot up in single user mode. Or disable Samba. Note: I didn't not compile PAM support for Samba. I used the Solaris 8 7/01 companion CD tools to compile Samba and SSH. The outstanding flag used during Samba compilation was '--with-profile', everything else was directory location related. nmbd starts up fine. Thanks, Thien