I'm having trouble tracking down the exact problem here. I'm running Samba 2.2.8 on Mandrake Linux 9.0 (had the same problem with 2.2.7 as well), with nothing out of the ordinary in the installation. I can run nmbd just fine, but when I try to run smbd I see the message "failed to initialise messages database" in the log file. Am I perhaps running into a locking/permissions problem with messages.tdb? Where would that file be located? Please keep in mind I'm something of a novice here. Any help would be very much appreciated, thanks. David P. Donahue david.donahue@firstsolution.com First Call Computer Solutions