Are you sure nmbd is running? The cat services just shows the ports involved. try ps ax | grep nmbd
21017 ? S 0:06 /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D 9546 ttyp2 S 0:00 grep nmbd or netstat -an | egrep 13[789] tcp 52 0 192.168.0.2:2960 192.168.0.6:139 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN udp 0 0 192.168.0.2:138 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 192.168.0.2:137 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:138 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:137 0.0.0.0:* Try netstat -anp if your box supports the p option. It shows which daemon is listening. Joel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba