For anyone that is interested: I was told to look for problems in my DNS (which was working ok, according to my PC's, but you never know), but befor I had a chance to even try, SAMBA started working. Yes, that's right ALL BY ITSELF. I may never find out what was wrong, but I glad I didn't have to spend any more time on it. I swear that I had not touched the computer since I fail to get SAMBA to operate, do the fact that it started working is beyond me. Anyway, false alarm I guess. Thanks for your time. Rgds Mel Rees [log in to unmask] On Fri, 01 Oct 1999 22:18:57 GMT, [log in to unmask] (Melvin R Rees) wrote: >It doesn't pay to try to stay up with the latest Y2K patches. > >I installed the SMB patch and SAMBA quit working. I now get the "your >server is being unfriendly" message and the SMB log shows "error >writing 4 bytes to client -1. exitting." Now I cannot get anything >out of SMB. NMB works fine. >