I can not run the testparm prog as it does not read any files and creates really confusing output: Output: incorrect size for /usr/local/samba/lib/upcase.dat - got 0 expected 131072 incorrect size for /usr/local/samba/lib/lowcase.dat - got 0 expected 131072 creating lame upcase table creating lame lowcase table incorrect size for /usr/local/samba/lib/valid.dat - got 0 expected 65536 creating default valid table incorrect size for /usr/local/samba/lib/valid.dat - got 0 expected 65536 creating default valid table params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf": Success Load smb config files from /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf Error loading services. All these files listed are there in /usr/local/samba/lib Please let me know if there is any more info I can provide ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Jeff Means CIO PicoTech Unix is userfriendly it is just selective of it's users -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed