dear All, i am new to Samba, but read thru all the documentation i found corresponding and still has problem to configure samba 2.2.7a on suse 7.2. my client is a win xp pro. the server and the client is in two different network. the server is at a server-farm and the client is a DSL attached. I am able to start smbd and my changes take effect, but nmbd makes me crazy. See the log details above. I found my windows was mis configured (no netbios over tcp/ip enabled and no wins server set - fixed) i was test via the DIAGNOSIS.txt file and failed at step 8. i am stucked. after that i was setting a fresh copy of config files by wizard as server type: stand alone, wins: server for client use, expose home: yes. till that point nmbd is not starting up. does any of you have idea? thanks a lot, z log.nmbd: [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794) Netbios nameserver version 2.2.7a-SuSE started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002 [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 1] lib/debug.c:debug_message(258) INFO: Debug class all level = 3 (pid 15759 from pid 15759) [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 3] nmbd/nmbd.c:reload_nmbd_services(292) services not loaded [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 2] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(832) Becoming a daemon. [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 0] nmbd/asyncdns.c:start_async_dns(148) started asyncdns process 15761 [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 3] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(861) Opening sockets 137 [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 3] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(813) bind succeeded on port 137 [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 3] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(813) bind succeeded on port 138 [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 3] nmbd/nmbd.c:open_sockets(550) open_sockets: Broadcast sockets opened. [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(239) create_subnets: No local interfaces ! [2003/02/25 18:12:45, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(872) ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting.