I've sent a couple of messages (acknowledgements of help received) to this list but they don't seem to have appeared. I'm trying again through desperation in the hope that this gets through. Well, the start of term approaches and my task over the holiday was to setup new fileserving services. I have setup 2 SuSE 6.4 based file servers using Samba. One is for storage of work and the other for delivering applications. They work fine at home on a small 10baseT network and I can access a W95 client and an Acorn client. However, at school they behave in a very strange way. The main fileserver boots ok with no apparent errors. However, I cannot connect to it through samba from any client even though smbstatus reports everything ok. If I restart Samba it works ok. I am very concerned that there is some underlying problem which is going to surface when the system is more heavily loaded. Something similar happens if I disconnect the server and try to connect from a client and then reconnect the server. Smbstatus says everything is ok but it doesn't work until it is restarted. Does anyone have any ideas? Dave Williams ICT Coordinator Derby Moor CS