Hi and thanks for this great software. Solaris (and other sysv) machines have a standardized way of starting and shutting down services (you may well know that already). Here's a piece of code one could place under /etc/init.d and create appropriate link from, say /etc/rc2.d/S99samba.server to make smbd start and stop automatically with system bootups and shutdowns. Each one should edit the lines containing the daemon calls to agree with his/her installation (the code below works with the defaults) and workgroup setup (we use the -G and -n options). I hope this will be of use --- at least it is for me. Yours, Timo Knuutila knuutila@cs.utu.fi