I'm running AIX 4.3.3MR9 on an H50 with NT4.0SP6a clients. Samba is 2.2.4 compiled on the system with GCC. I've been having an issue for a few weeks and it really looked like some type of name resolution issue. When NT clients browse samba shares from my AIX server they take 30-60 seconds to come up. Sometimes they won't come up at all. All of my DNS, WINS, and hosts files check out and the network was up so I asked for some help snooping packts with our netadmin. He was nice enough to visit and I tried to take the best notes I could so here goes... I'm on the PDC trying to pull up a share from the SMBSERVER inside of the network neighborhood. This runs for about a minute before kicking me out. "no such file desktop.ini srvsvc account was null and the domain was null dest SMBSERVER -> source PDC Negotiated connected this disconnected .02 seconds later pulled desktop.ini ACK took too long to respond insufficient buffer space on one side or the other? (There are 2 of theses alerts) WINS lookup Tried to connect null again tried to to connect PDC/IPC$ tried to pull netlogon -> SUCCESS RPC 5.0 BIND Lots of peramaters are passed netrlogon call -> request challange three way handshake request response call response connects and disconnects. NetBIOS traffic is detected, but cannon be encoded. At the same time a "window frozen" error comes up. NetBIOS session request -> confirmed negotiation begins Protocal Dialog index account administrator PDC SMBSERVER/SHARENAME WINS traffic TCP traffic NETBIOS 76 bytes of user data confirms session Negotiates anon three way handshake and then closes down -------------------- I looked up all of the information I could on the windows frozen error as that was definately happening. Didn't find too much on it besides a reccomendation that smbd & nmbd *NOT* be controlled by inetd.conf. I removed them from the file and left swat and am still having trouble. As far as the ACK error...the only information I could find was a protocol sheet on the main site. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Regards, -Tony Basically the samba server is a file server only. No PDC BDC or WINS coming from it. SECURITY=DOMAIN. WINS is running on my PDC and a BDC. Resolution in samba is WINS host (/etc/hosts has the whole network on the server). Passwords are encrypted, as they should be for NT...and are passed off to the PDC or BDC's. I'm not too sure as to what's going on with the networking end of this and I could use some help. Is there anything that is obviously wrong with that traffic? Conf file included below: [global] client code page = 437 code page directory = /usr/local/lib/codepages workgroup = OURDOMAIN netbios name = SMBSERVER server string = Samba %v interfaces = 208.1.175.144/255.255.255.128 security = DOMAIN encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = Yes password server = PDC BDC BDC2 smb passwd file = /var/samba/private/smbpasswd passwd program = /bin/yppasswd username map = /usr/local/lib/users.map unix password sync = Yes log file = /var/samba/log/log.%m max log size = 50 name resolve order = wins host bcast deadtime = 15 max disk size = 7199 socket options = TCP_NODELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=32768 SO_RCVBUF=32768 load printers = No logon path logon home local master = No domain master = False wins server = 208.1.175.146 lock dir = /var/samba/locks pid directory = /var/samba/pid socket address homedir map admin users = Administrator, ntadmin create mask = 0755 force create mode = 0755 [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [DATA] comment = OUR DATA DIRECTORY path = /home/data read only = No inherit permissions = Yes [DOCS] comment = SOME DOCS path = /usr/catia/doc _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com