It seems to me at least the NMBD crashes all time time. In my log.nmbd file I see the following.. [2003/08/25 08:52:03, 1] nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(95) process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.2.30.228: code = 0x12 [2003/08/25 08:52:28, 0] lib/charcnv.c:convert_string_allocate(272) Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(?E?) [2003/08/25 08:52:28, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1462) PANIC: failed to create UCS2 buffer [2003/08/25 08:52:28, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1469) BACKTRACE: 12 stack frames: #0 nmbd(smb_panic+0x11c) [0x80bec4c] #1 nmbd(unix_strupper+0xa0) [0x80ab900] #2 nmbd(strupper_m+0x42) [0x80b8082] #3 nmbd [0x8067808] #4 nmbd(find_name_on_subnet+0x27) [0x80679b7] #5 nmbd(process_name_query_request+0x77) [0x8066587] #6 nmbd [0x806d8fd] #7 nmbd(run_packet_queue+0x89) [0x806db19] #8 nmbd(strftime+0x1a56) [0x805f59a] #9 nmbd(main+0x3f7) [0x805fc37] #10 /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe4) [0x420156a4] #11 nmbd(yp_get_default_domain+0x7d) [0x805e491] Anyone have any ideas, this is a definite show stopper for me. I also found that when I do a "service smb stop" under /var/run/samba there still exists smbd.pid and nmbd.pid so if I restart smb it dies again because it thinks its already running.. Can anyone point me in the right direction on what I can do to fix this? Spencer