Hello, I have just downloaded Samba 2.2.7.a and I have tried to set it up on AIX 4.3.3 and am not having luck. Last week I installed samba on my linux machine and it works pretty well. The boss asked on Friday if I could set it up on my AIX machine. I have samba installed in /usr/local/samba. After running /usr/local/samba/smbd -D and /usr/local/samba/nmbd -D I can do this ps -aef | grep mbd and it only shows nmbd -D. On the linux box both items show up. after typing in a simple smb.conf file like this below [global] workgroup = SIMPLE1 code page directory = /var/ron_temp/usr/local/lib/codepages hosts allow = 192.42.nnn. 127.0.0.1 localhost # log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log log level = 3 max log size = 50 [rondir] comment = For Testing only path = /var/ron_temp read only = no guest ok = yes I then run smbclient -U% -L localhost and get the following error > smbclient -U% -L localhost added interface ip=192.42.nnn.nnn bcast=192.42.nnn.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 error connecting to 127.0.0.1:139 (Connection refused) Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused) Connection to localhost failed output of Log [2003/02/17 16:00:57, 2] lib/interface.c:add_interface(81) added interface ip=192.42.nnn.nnn bcast=192.42.nnn.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 [2003/02/17 16:00:57, 3] lib/interface.c:add_interface(61) not adding duplicate interface 192.42.nnn.nnn [2003/02/17 16:00:57, 0] passdb/secrets.c:secrets_init(43) Failed to open /usr/local/samba/private/secrets.tdb [2003/02/17 16:00:57, 3] smbd/server.c:main(747) loaded services [2003/02/17 16:00:57, 3] smbd/server.c:main(762) Becoming a daemon. [2003/02/17 16:00:57, 0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(163) pdb_generate_sam_sid: Failed to store generated machine SID. [2003/02/17 16:00:57, 0] smbd/server.c:main(793) ERROR: Samba cannot create a SAM SID. any ideas -- Ron Bramblett Sys Admin Fuller Brush Company