Hi, I have installed Samba on AIX 5.3 as per the document on http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/AIX/README. Everthing worked well and I was able to connect to the shared directory from an Windows 2003 machine. I now want to stop the smdb,nmbd processes from the command line. Although, I can start the processes from the command line (basically a script), but I do not know how to stop the processes ( apart from kill -HUP smdb etc.) as there is no file in /etc/inet directory that can be used for this purpose as I have installed binaries for AIX which have installed only in /opt. Unfortunately commands such as pkill,killproc are not working on my system. Basically I want a auto start/stop mechanism for Samba 3.0.21c on AIX 5.3. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, rte __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com