Don't know how that last email took off, but that wasn't suppose to happen. Any the root 3 59.6 0.0 0 0 ? R< 10:16 11:04 [events/0] is a kernel thread that handles weird irq stuff. I just disabled onboard sound and USB and it went away. I'm still left with my other problems though, here they are 2.) I'm having LMB and DMB problems on the server, here is the tails from syslog Jul 14 10:26:43 localhost nmbd[2434]: [2004/07/14 10:26:43, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396) Jul 14 10:26:43 localhost nmbd[2434]: ***** Jul 14 10:26:43 localhost nmbd[2434]: Jul 14 10:26:43 localhost nmbd[2434]: Samba name server GARNETMAIN is now a local master browser for workgroup GARNET on subnet 192.168.1.1 Jul 14 10:26:43 localhost nmbd[2434]: Jul 14 10:26:43 localhost nmbd[2434]: ***** Jul 14 10:27:04 localhost nmbd[2434]: [2004/07/14 10:27:04, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:domain_master_node_status_fail(247) Jul 14 10:27:04 localhost nmbd[2434]: domain_master_node_status_fail: Jul 14 10:27:04 localhost nmbd[2434]: Doing a node status request to the domain master browser Jul 14 10:27:04 localhost nmbd[2434]: for workgroup GARNET at IP 192.168.1.50 failed. Jul 14 10:27:04 localhost nmbd[2434]: Cannot sync browser lists. Jul 14 10:27:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: [2004/07/14 10:27:45, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(327) Jul 14 10:27:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: become_domain_master_browser_wins: Jul 14 10:27:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup GARNET, subnet UNICAST_SUBNET. Jul 14 10:27:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: [2004/07/14 10:27:45, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(341) Jul 14 10:27:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: become_domain_master_browser_wins: querying WINS server from IP 192.168.1.1 for domain master browser name GARNET<1b> on workgroup GARNET Jul 14 10:27:46 localhost nmbd[2434]: [2004/07/14 10:27:46, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_query_success(225) Jul 14 10:27:46 localhost nmbd[2434]: become_domain_master_query_success: Jul 14 10:27:46 localhost nmbd[2434]: There is already a domain master browser at IP 192.168.1.50 for workgroup GARNET registered on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET. Jul 14 10:32:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: [2004/07/14 10:32:45, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(327) Jul 14 10:32:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: become_domain_master_browser_wins: Jul 14 10:32:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup GARNET, subnet UNICAST_SUBNET. Jul 14 10:32:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: [2004/07/14 10:32:45, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(341) Jul 14 10:32:45 localhost nmbd[2434]: become_domain_master_browser_wins: querying WINS server from IP 192.168.1.1 for domain master browser name GARNET<1b> on workgroup GARNET Jul 14 10:32:46 localhost nmbd[2434]: [2004/07/14 10:32:46, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_query_success(225) Jul 14 10:32:46 localhost nmbd[2434]: become_domain_master_query_success: Jul 14 10:32:46 localhost nmbd[2434]: There is already a domain master browser at IP 192.168.1.50 for workgroup GARNET registered on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET. Jul 14 10:36:14 localhost nmbd[2434]: [2004/07/14 10:36:14, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:process_master_browser_announce(397) Jul 14 10:36:14 localhost nmbd[2434]: process_master_browser_announce: Local master announce made to us from DPEZDESK IP 192.168.1.198 and we are not a domain master browser. As you can see somehow something has kept record of 192.168.1.50, and I'm not sure what. 3.) there are some other smb errors in the logs: Jul 14 10:35:49 localhost smbd[3065]: [2004/07/14 10:35:49, 0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:api_pipe_netsec_process(1371) Jul 14 10:35:49 localhost smbd[3065]: failed to decode PDU Jul 14 10:35:49 localhost smbd[3065]: [2004/07/14 10:35:49, 0] rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c:process_request_pdu(605) Jul 14 10:35:49 localhost smbd[3065]: process_request_pdu: failed to do schannel processing. Not sure what to do about those. If someone could please help me that would be great thanks. Miles # Global parameters [global] workgroup = GARNET netbios name = GARNETMAIN server string = G interfaces = 192.168.1.1/16 bind interfaces only = Yes lanman auth = No log level = 1 log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log min protocol = NT1 time server = Yes change notify timeout = 300 deadtime = 15 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -g machines -d /dev/null -M %u logon script = logon.bat logon path = \\%N\profile\%U logon drive = p: domain logons = Yes os level = 34 lm announce = Yes preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes winbind use default domain = Yes comment = SERVER hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0, 127.0.0.1, #EXCEPT, 192.168.0.83 hosts deny = ALL use sendfile = Yes printing = cups hide unreadable = Yes [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/%U valid users = %S read only = No force create mode = 0700 force directory mode = 0700 browseable = No [profile] path = /home/profile read only = No profile acls = Yes browseable = No [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Services path = /home/netlogon admin users = root, miles guest ok = Yes browseable = No