i have a samba server named CCFILES set up on a domain. i've successfully set up the server and joined it to the domain. we're running in an 2000 domain, but it's not running AD. most of our workstations are win2000 pro. all i want to do is serve files. i can browse the server fine and even copy some things, but explorer frequently locks up while browsing the server. looking at the server, everything seems fine. the server's a 450 mhz g3 powerpc with 512 MB of RAM and a 40 GB HDD, which would seem to me to be more than enough to serve files. i'm running Mandrake Linux on it and Samba 3.0.7. i set the machine up with a high security setting. not sure if that might be the cause of some of my problems. i'm not exactly sure what it entails, but i can't log into the machine direcly as root (i have to su), it will automatically log out of root after a while if not being used, and pings to the machine aren't returned. i tried copying the smb.conf file over to my workstation using samba, and only the first 16 kb copied for some reason. here are some settings i changed: [global] workgroup = DOMAIN security = DOMAIN password server = * encrypt passwords = yes idmap uid = 15000-20000 idmap gid = 15000-20000 winbind separator = + local master = no wins server = 192.168.1.10 [Files] comment = shared files path = /files public = yes writable = no write list = DOMAIN+user1 DOMAIN+user2 DOMAIN+user3 i don't want any kind of shared printing, so i commented all of the printing options out. are there any settings i missed or configured incorrectly? could my security settings possibly have something to do with this? could i possibly change this setting and fix the problem: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 i appreciate any suggestions. thanks for the help.