I have been battling with the samba server the last two days. It was working just fine and then began to fall apart slowly but surely. From a windows box on logon it would tell you no domain server was available yadda yadda, but it would still give you access to the smb shares. Then it decided to just say no domain server available or you don't have access to the server. So I fiddle and get it somewhat working. I can view the smb shares from a linux with no problem. smbmount no problem. Then after making (I think) no changes the daemon will not stay running. When I do /etc/rc.d/init/smb restart it fails on shutting down and gives ok for starting up. /etc/rc.d/init smb status reveals smbd stopped nmbd stopped So, I decided I didn't like the current system configuration and reload RH7.1. Upon reload the daemons run fine. Change the /etc/samba/smb.conf file and smbadduser and smbpasswd and the thing breaks again. I added to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file /usr/sbin/smbd -D /usr/sbin/nmbd -D and rebooted. Same scenario. Is it just Friday the 13th or just the broken smb stack?