Hi, I am using Samba on Nexenta 3.1.1 which is why the version is pretty old. I am seeing that Samba daemons do not see group membership changes until I do a samba restart or kill the PIDs specific for the shares I need updated. When I tried doing the same on an Ubuntu machine, I remember that Samba was able to see the changes as they happened (was using Samba 3.5+). I've read somewhere in an old forum post that Samba daemons refresh the contents of /etc/group on load. I'm guessing that might have been changed at some time. I couldn't find any configuration differences that might explain the different behavior. My question is whether there's anything I can do with the version I have (3.0.28) to get Samba to refresh /etc/group which does not involve killing processes and disrupting access. Using reload (SIGHUP) does not help. Thanks, Leeor.