> > >Why do you have the status parameter set to no?
i've never set status =no in my smb.conf !!! but now i append the line status =yes and the answer is the same ! ERROR: the 'max smbd processes' parameter is set and the 'status' parameter is set to 'no' here is the begining of my smb.conf status = yes workgroup = mySERVER hosts allow = 194.199. 172.16. 127. client code page = 850 character set = ISO8859-1 log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m max log size = 50 security = server password server = server encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY os level = 33 domain master = yes preferred master = yes dns proxy = no max connections = 80 max disk size = 20 max smbd processes = 80 deadtime = 10 ******************************** Alain Defrance Ingénieur systèmes et réseaux Service Informatique Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01.69.47.80.69 06.74.09.19.54 www.univ-evry.fr ********************************