I know that as my first day I shouldn't spam off this mailing list but : as it tells I did, but they won't be usefull... http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ compiling.html I compiled the new stable version in /root/samba_test with #configure --prefix=/root/samba_test but when I launch the servers they don't want to rise up neither /root/samba_test/sbin/smbd -D -s /root/samba_test/etc/smb.conf nor /root/samba_test/sbin/nmbd -D -s /root/samba_test/etc/smb.conf start 'em up! do you know if could be such a problem with any ubuntu systems? gday! Rob