Greetings, I have an advanced config question that I'm hoping the Samba Gods can help me with in regards to feasibility and execution. I'll give the concept of what I want to do, followed by the details of my present config. I have a functioning samba 3.0.8pre2 server that is multihomed. The 100Mb line is attached to our main network. the 1Gb line is attached to a private 1Gb lan used for backing up our file servers. It is a member server in a W2k3 Active directory domain and its working fine. This is the directory structure of the data being shared, the samba shares are defined on the eng, prod, and ext levels on the primary 100Mb interface. /data/shares/eng /data/shares/prod /data/shares/ext This is what I would like to do. I would like to keep the shares already defined intact sharing out on the 100Mb lan I would like to share to the private 1Gb lan because we have started to use a near-online backup strategy using a dir-sync tool. we do a basic copy with ntfs permissions from the file servers to the backup server's array, from this array, we create the backup tapes. so far so good. I would like to share the file system at the /data/shares level for backup simplicity, but i'm aware that it might not be possible to share at that level because there are subordinate directories already shared. This part is a little more important. The machine is registering itself in wins; registering the various services and names as its supposed to. is there a way to prevent the server from registering the server's 1Gb private lan shares in wins on the primary interface? and if so, how do I do it? My concern is that if I share out to the secondary 1Gb private lan, and it registers itself in wins, that our client machines won't be able to resolve the server sometimes because the client on the main network recieved the 192.168.0.x address from wins. is this setup feasible? what are my options? and how do I go about setting this up? below, I will provide my smb.conf Regards Fred Dussault also, if there are any glaring mistakes in my config, I'll appreciate any constructive criticism... Thanks! # Global parameters [global] workgroup = US realm = US.RAY.COM server string = Samba 3.08pre2 Server interfaces = eth0 security = ADS auth methods = winbind password server = eadc-gc101.us.ray.com log level = 1 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 name resolve order = wins bcast host lmhosts server signing = auto #socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 os level = 5 preferred master = No local master = No domain master = No browse list = No enhanced browsing = No dns proxy = No wins server = 138.127.x.x ldap ssl = no socket address idmap uid = 70000-200000 idmap gid = 70000-200000 winbind separator = + valid users = @"us+adc-rfc users", us+labviewadmin admin users = @"us+adc-it admin" read list = @"us+adc-rfc users" write list = @"us+adc-site support", us+labviewadmin hosts allow = 138.127.x.x/255.255.252.0 map acl inherit = Yes [prod] path = /data/share/prod valid users = @"us+adc-rfc users", us+labviewadmin admin users = @"us+adc-it admin" read list = @"us+adc-rfc users" write list = @"us+adc-site support", @"us+adc-fab rf test" [eng] path = /data/share/eng valid users = @"us+adc-rfc users", us+labviewadmin admin users = @"us+adc-it admin" read list = @"us+adc-rfc users" write list = @"us+adc-site support", @"us+adc-eng test" [ext] path = /data/share/ext valid users = @"us+adc-rfc users", us+lavbiewadmin admin users = @"us+adc-it admin" read list = @"us+adc-rfc users" write list = @"us+adc-site support", @us+adc-model