I have replaced several NT servers with SAMBA on FreeBSD 4.7. The versions of SAMBA vary from 2.2.7a to 2.2.8. The SAMBA servers have been joined to the domain and show up as Windows NT 4.9 Server under Server Manager on NT. I am now down to two remaining NT4 servers that are domain controllers. I am experiencing two issues; NetBIOS resolution seems to have gotten messed up and the logs on the NT and SAMBA machines are full of repetitive entries. Issue 1: It seems one of our SAMBA servers is having its name resolved to an IP address used by another box. This happens if you ping its NetBIOS name or try to do start menu->run->\\NetBIOS. I tried nbtstat -R on the NT boxes but the problem persists. I finally moved the machine with the incorrectly resolved NetBIOS name to the IP address and relocated the other machine to a new address. I am not running a WINS server nor am I attempting to allow WINS through DHCP. Issue 2: The event log on the NT machines are littered with the following entry: Date: 4/20/2003 Source: Src Time: 4:26:28 PM Category: None Type: Error Event ID: 2006 User: N/A Computer: PHXNT02 Description: The server received an incorrectly formatted request from \\PHXFB01. Data: Bytes 0000: 00 00 34 00 02 00 7c 00 ..4...|. 0008: 00 00 00 00 d6 07 00 c0 ....?..? 0010: 00 00 00 00 01 20 98 c0 ..... ?? 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: b3 06 00 00 ff 53 4d 42 ?...?SMB 0030: 25 00 00 00 00 08 01 c0 %......? 0038: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0040: 00 00 00 00 04 18 3e 2a ......>* 0048: 00 30 01 00 10 00 00 48 .0.....H 0050: 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 00 ...H.... 0058: 00 00 00 00 .... When I say littered, I mean that this entry is showing up in groups of 6-8, spaced only a few seconds apart with inconsistent amounts of time between the groups. This message shows up for the all SAMBA servers, though the more heavily used SAMBA machines have more entries than the others. The log files on the SAMBA servers are littered with the following entries: [2003/04/23 15:05:03, 0] rpc_client/cli_netlogon.c:cli_net_req_chal(246) cli_net_req_chal: Error NT_STATUS_INVALID_COMPUTER_NAME [2003/04/23 15:05:03, 0] rpc_client/cli_login.c:cli_nt_setup_creds(47) cli_nt_setup_creds: request challenge failed [2003/04/23 15:05:03, 0] rpc_client/cli_trust.c:modify_trust_password(142) modify_trust_password: unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine 192.168.100.10. Error was : NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL. [2003/04/23 15:05:04, 0] rpc_client/cli_netlogon.c:cli_net_req_chal(246) cli_net_req_chal: Error NT_STATUS_INVALID_COMPUTER_NAME [2003/04/23 15:05:04, 0] rpc_client/cli_login.c:cli_nt_setup_creds(47) cli_nt_setup_creds: request challenge failed [2003/04/23 15:05:04, 0] rpc_client/cli_trust.c:modify_trust_password(142) modify_trust_password: unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine 192.168.100.11. Error was : NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL. [2003/04/23 15:05:04, 0] rpc_client/cli_trust.c:change_trust_account_password(248) 2003/04/23 15:05:04 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change password for domain INDATACORP. Here is my smb.conf file: #========================== Global Settings ===========================[global] workgroup = indatacorp server string = Litigation Services Samba Server log file = /var/log/log.%m max log size = 50 oplocks = no level2 oplocks = no security = domain password server = 192.168.100.10, 192.168.100.11 encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY show add printer wizard = no local master = no domain master = no preferred master = no #========================= Share Definitions ============================[Data] comment = Production Files path = /data public = yes writeable = yes browseable = yes force directory mode = 0777 force create mode = 0777 Everything else appears to be working; if you log in locally to a computer and try to browse the shares on the SAMBA servers you're prompted for username and password, if you log into the domain from the workstation and then attempt to browse a SAMBA server you can access and read and write to the shares. Thank you for any input or direction. -Randy