Just been playing with my new favourite distro Arch Linux. 4.1.7 been in there repo since the 12th and all seems fine. 4.1.7 for some reason seems faster, logons and client joins. Going to post the Virtual box OVA to http://sourceforge.net/projects/samba4all/ The DNS now seems to automatically create a reverse zone for the subnet. Do you still need to create a ptr record for the server, I did anway. Stuart