I'm running samba 4.2 under FreeBSD 10.0. The FreeBSD host is configured to get passwd and group data from an open ldap server. For some reason smbd is connection to the ldap server directly, and repeating the same query, causing a traffic storm on the openldap server. I've verified the smbd connection to the ldap server with sockstat -4 and tcpdump. Is there a way to tell smbd to just follow nsswitch and read from the nscd cache? Or maybe I need to configure caching in winbind? Thanks Russ Poyner nsswitch.conf: passwd: cache files ldap shadow: files group: cache files ldap hosts: cache files dns networks: files protocols: files rpc: files ethers: files services: files netgroup: cache files ldap publickey: automount: files aliases: files netmasks: files smb4.conf: [global] workgroup = SCHOOL server string = mydata # server services = -winbindd, -ldap security = ADS load printers = no realm = AD.SCHOOL.EDU socket options = SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no unix extensions = no nmbd bind explicit broadcast = no oplocks = yes level2 oplocks = yes kernel oplocks = no