My nmbd dies every single day. For some reason, samba is no longer logging to log.smbd and log.nmbd, so I have no clue why this is happening. All client connections are logged - i.e. log.machinename Info - samba 2.2.7a (though this has happened since 2.2.5) Linux RH7.3, kernel 2.4.18-17.7.xsmp (also happened with earlier kernels) my smb.conf reads: # log file options log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 500 log level = 1 The machine is a domain member, and looks to a W2K WINS server for lookups. Kevin Long.