hi! i?ve a problem in my lan with samba an the clients: everything is working fine, but samba or the client (i don?t know who) is disconnecting frequently althoug i?m working at a file on a share. so when i want to save it?s not possible. i?ve to try saving 4-5 times an the the daemon at the server is working again. i can?t say how long?s the time until disconnect because it?s different. sometimes when i browse with my client the network, the server isn?t found until a daemon-process is startet on the server. i?ve to browse 5-6 times "to start" a daemon-process on the server. the smbclient -L Homer shows 2 server to me...that?s not right in my lan. only Homer is the server or everything. or does it mean the available "servers" in the network? and what is meant with IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 2.2.4 (PDC)) ADMIN$ Disk IPC Service (Samba 2.2.4 (PDC)) in the shares? does anybody knows the fault? thx for help Andi Situation: Server OS: Slackware 8.1 Kernel: 2.4.18 (compiled) samba: 2.2.4 (comming with slackware) eth0: 192.168.0.1 Client OS: W2k 192.168.0.2 root@Homer:/etc/rc.d# smbclient -L Homer INFO: Debug class all level = 3 (pid 31416 from pid 31416) added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: Domain=[SIMPSONS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.4] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- Homes Disk Home Andi Disk Chef Wiebke Disk Cheffin Allgemein Disk Allgemein MP3 Disk MP3 Downloads Disk Downloads MBM Disk MBM FTP Disk FTP-Server WWW Disk WWW Homepage Disk Homepage GDILine Disk Warenwirtschaft InterBase Disk InterBase Lenelies Disk Lenelies IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 2.2.4 (PDC)) ADMIN$ Disk IPC Service (Samba 2.2.4 (PDC)) root Disk Home Server Comment --------- ------- HOMER Samba 2.2.4 (PDC) TINGELTANGELBOB Workgroup Master --------- ------- SIMPSONS HOMER this is my global section in smb.conf: [global] workgroup = SIMPSONS netbios name = HOMER server string = Samba %v (PDC) interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 bind interfaces only = Yes encrypt passwords = Yes map to guest = Bad User passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u unix password sync = Yes log level = 3 log file = /var/log/%U.smb keepalive = 0 domain admin group = @root domain guest group = root logon path = \\%N\%u\profiles logon drive = H: logon home = %H domain logons = Yes os level = 65 preferred master = True domain master = True comment = Server admin users = root read only = No create mask = 0777 guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0