Dear all i have successfully setup samba on RHEL 5, but when the server samba offline why the computer client (Wins XP) cannot login? can someone help me how to fix this problem, i won if samba server offline the client still have login with domain, and work by local harddisk here is my smb.conf [global] workgroup = DLS server string = Samba Server Version %v netbios name = PDCDLS log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 2048 security = user passdb backend = tdbsam domain master = yes domain logons = yes logon script = %u.bat logon path = wins support = yes idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon guest ok = yes writable = no share modes = no [Profiles] path = /var/lib/samba/profiles browseable = no guest ok = yes writable = yes thank before Cyd