I managed to bring samba(ver 3.0.28a) up successfully. Version 3.0.25c which came with my installation CD didn't work and I didn't bother to check why, but why the other 2 versions didn't work as well was because I was careless enough to replace the binaries alone and not the libraries. Once i replaced the lib files samba works really smooth and I'm able to connect from other machines. Regards, Bhaskar. This message posted from opensolaris.org
