I receive the following errors/warnings in this scenario. - From my Windows XP client, I open Network Places. I then click View workgroup computers. When the list of computers is displayed into the window I receive the following messages in /var/log/messages. Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[3101]: [2005/09/19 09:48:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1222) Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[3101]: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: [2005/09/19 09:48:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1222) Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: [2005/09/19 09:48:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1222) Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: [2005/09/19 09:48:53, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(328) Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: [2005/09/19 09:48:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1222) Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: Denied connection from (0.0.0.0) Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: [2005/09/19 09:48:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1222) Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: Connection denied from 0.0.0.0 Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: [2005/09/19 09:48:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(554) Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: write_data: write failure in writing to client 0.0.0.0. Error Connection reset by peer Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: [2005/09/19 09:48:53, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(762) Sep 19 09:48:53 lnx04 smbd[4314]: Error writing 5 bytes to client. -1. (Connection reset by peer) Next, I close the Network Places window and execute the same steps to see if the messages come back the second time around. They do not. However, if I restart the smbd services and do it all over again, they do. -- <man-lnx03@comcast.net>