Hi Folks: I am continuing to work on the samba problems. This is a weird one!!! I have 3 servers with samba running: 2 of them work perfectly and the third one refuses to authenticated I am seeing a lot of the following error [2005/07/21 12:58:21, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1000) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected Googleing around has found that it seems to be related to DNS issues, but that makes no sense, since the two other servers running identical [global] sections (only differences are machine names etc) and krb5 configurations are working fine The web server works cool The testbed server works kool When I try to access the file server, it asks for authentication Kinit shows no errors, so I assume that's working right Here is the smb.conf [global] log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log idmap gid = 10000-40000 socket options = SO_RCVBUF=8192 wins server = 192.168.0.2 domain master = No realm = MCASCHOOL.NET netbios name = srvfs-01 server string = MCA File Server (test conf) password server = srvdc01.mcaschool.net idmap uid = 10000-40000 winbind enum users = yes winbind nested groups = Yes local master = No workgroup = MCASCHOOL os level = 20 winbind enum groups = yes security = ads preferred master = no [users] path = /home read only = No here is the nsswitch.conf # # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be # sorted with the most-used services at the beginning. # # The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an # entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned # up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason # (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the # next entry. # # Legal entries are: # # nisplus or nis+ Use NIS+ (NIS version 3) # nis or yp Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP # dns Use DNS (Domain Name Service) # files Use the local files # db Use the local database (.db) files # compat Use NIS on compat mode # hesiod Use Hesiod for user lookups # [NOTFOUND=return] Stop searching if not found so far # # To use db, put the "db" in front of "files" for entries you want to be # looked up first in the databases # # Example: #passwd: db files nisplus nis #shadow: db files nisplus nis #group: db files nisplus nis passwd: files compat winbind shadow: compat group: files compat winbind #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns hosts: files dns winbind # Example - obey only what nisplus tells us... #services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #networks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #protocols: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #rpc: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #ethers: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #netmasks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files winbind rpc: files services: files winbind netgroup: files winbind publickey: nisplus automount: files winbind aliases: files nisplus And the /etc/krb5.conf [libdefaults] default_realm = MCASCHOOL.NET [realms] MCASCHOOL.NET = { kdc = srvdc01.mcaschool.net } [domain_realm] .mcaschool.net = MCASCHOOL.NET mcaschool.net = MCASCHOOL.NET here is the /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 srvfs-01 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.5 srvfs-01 srvfs-01.mcaschool.net srvfs-01 And last but not least the /etc/resolv.conf domain mcaschool.net nameserver 192.168.0.2 This one has me totally stumped, because one of the servers that is running is running an exactly identical hardware set Any suggestions would be most helpful Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Webmaster / Science Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14