I am new to samba and am having a problem with smbd starting. It just hangs when I run smbd -D. I set the debug level to 10 and the log file looks like this: Adding chars 0x0 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x21 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x23 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x24 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x25 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x26 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x27 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x28 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x29 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x2d 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x2e 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x30 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x31 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x32 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x33 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x34 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x35 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x36 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x37 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x38 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x39 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x40 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x41 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x42 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x43 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x44 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x45 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x46 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x47 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x48 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x49 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x4a 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x4b 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x4c 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x4d 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x4e 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x4f 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x50 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x51 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x52 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x53 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x54 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x55 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x56 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x57 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x58 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x59 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x5a 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x5e 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x5f 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x60 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x61 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x62 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x63 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x64 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x65 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x66 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x67 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x68 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x69 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x6a 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x6b 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x6c 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x6d 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x6e 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x6f 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x70 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x71 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x72 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x73 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x74 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x75 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x76 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x77 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x78 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x79 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x7a 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x7b 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x7d 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) Adding chars 0x7e 0x0 (l->u = False) (u->l = False) -- end of the log file -- I have gone through all the suggestions and documents on samba.org and have tried several versions, all with the same result. The machine I am installing it on is an IBM xServer running AIX 5.2. I tried precompiled binaries as well and compiling the latest source. I had samba 2.0.7 running on a similar machine, but am unable to getting to run on this machine. It seems to be something network related. The firewall has been taken down, still no luck. Any insight as to where to look from here is appreciated. By the way, nmbd runs fine. -- Wayne Singley sprucetree at yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com