Hey everyone, I hope your days are going well. I've got a question which has no doubt been answered before but I feel the need to ask it anyway. Where I work we have a spare server which is running Mandrake 7.2, I've been left to my own devices on this server by my boss in an effort to help me learn more about how our school's network works without releasing me on our "live" Samba Network. I managed to configure Samba 2.2.3a and it runs great, I created my own .conf from scratch using the 'Using Samba' documentation in SWAT and various other documents. This may not seem like much but I've learnt alot from it. This machine has an IP of 10.16.0.250, on this IP it runs Samba 2.2.3a SMBD/NMBD and SWAT. What I was wondering is, can I install Samba 3.0 alpha 17 on the same machine? Obviously giving Samba 3.x different paths for it's binaries and such, it's own config file etc... I tried to run it's SMBD/NMBD along side the other version, the NMBD ran fine yet the SMBD failed with the error of it can't bind to port 139 which is the NETBIOS port. My boss was under the impression you could run 2 SMBD's sharing the port and depending on what you typed in the DOMAIN box, it would direct the output to the relevant daemon. However I've come to believe the Samba 3.x system would want it's own IP. The straight up question is, can I run 2 versions of Samba along side each other? If I can, how can I accomplish this? If not, the way I thought of doing it would be to stop the 2.2.3a one loading on boot, disabling SWAT/SMBD/NMBD through linuxconf. Then just load the 'smbd/nmbd/swat' set that I wanted to look at. I've looked at 3.x's changelog, it doesn't mean an awful lot to me I must admit. Could anyone out there be good enough to tell me the MAIN differences (in terms of features) that 3.x has over 2.2.3a? We run Samba 2.0.7 on our main systems, Mandrake 8.1. I assume that 2.2.3a has plenty of fixes that make it well worth upgrading from 2.0.7? Thanking you all for your time and patience :) Kris "May darkness be your only ally, for in the shadows you can hide" - Kris 1998-2002 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQEVAwUBPHjfdSBHjRAjzresAQHZpgf/ZKpt2Nl+8EmIJwT/rLFtx8yhFFKdqVk6 pQGsgeOGN1ZI5kSOU6FBeWkyVS3YKLV6UHhvHVm1MQuBwPyfnjhQGj+OuI9jQPoc qTFb0TRQivOQoOeJq1PfIFcl53RrvRUOFAl8+jdKqZo/IFARdllknkCMTZirvp5l M+7/4a/ua2rx8d46zab1RF5YYNHRjyJRXD913FHty5VXCX31DJ55nAho30lOKOPC TNT+zzO1UC/J+keWSjxSSV3wPeOiOgtUtI5FiuXJmv1IXzsxjogGCTd0HUJ/04mR H623bEhl8M8yF/x6seCNKpHDkDQjoL+ddlQGVezdgbg3z7Jd7Y6VKA==/whC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG 6. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.343 / Virus Database: 190 - Release Date: 22/03/2002