I have started some tests of samba 3. the first think I realized is that testparm and smbstatus do not honour the --sysconfigdir or --confdir (i could have mispelled in the mail, but not in the tests) as they search for the configuration file in /usr/lib, the default path. smbd anf nmbd work correctly Bye Davide Parise E-Mail: d.parise at mhz.it