Howdy, I've been following the thread at http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2003-August/101401.html, and, having encountered the bug mentioned, repackaged samba from CVS as of about five hours ago. Now I'm the smb service never starts, I'm getting the following (looped) when stracing the smbd -D process it runs (see end of message) Any ideas? TIA. Mike write(5, " convert_string: Required 2, av"..., 42) = 42 time(NULL) = 1061444707 time([1061444707]) = 1061444707 getpid() = 28508 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x420db0d0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x420276f8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 send(4, "<30>Aug 21 15:45:07 smbd[28508]:"..., 92, 0) = 92 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 write(5, "[2003/08/21 15:45:07, 3] lib/cha"..., 59) = 59 time([1061444707]) = 1061444707 getpid() = 28508 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x420db0d0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x420276f8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 send(4, "<30>Aug 21 15:45:07 smbd[28508]:"..., 101, 0) = 101 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 write(5, " convert_string: Conversion err"..., 68) = 68 time(NULL) = 1061444707 time([1061444707]) = 1061444707 getpid() = 28508 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x420db0d0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x420276f8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 send(4, "<30>Aug 21 15:45:07 smbd[28508]:"..., 92, 0) = 92 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 write(5, "[2003/08/21 15:45:07, 3] lib/cha"..., 59) = 59 time([1061444707]) = 1061444707 getpid() = 28508 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x420db0d0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x420276f8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 send(4, "<30>Aug 21 15:45:07 smbd[28508]:"..., 75, 0) = 75 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 write(5, " convert_string: Required 2, av"..., 42) = 42 -- __________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477