[Samba] Runaway nmbd Process - Help!

[John Blue]

I am running SuSE V 8 with KDE 3 and had a memory problem when the 
screen would lose icons, taskbars etc. I am very much a newbie and 
everything was going along smoothly, even managed to get Cups up and 
running and printing across the small Lan to a windows printer.

The problem is being caused by nmbd starting up in a loop causing 
dozens of instances to run each with their own PID until such time as 
memory is exhausted (I have 512Mb Ram and wondered what was 
happening).

Samba was running OK until this happened. I have managed to kill all 
nmbd processes. If I reboot this starts again, I have also shutdown 
and powered off, restarting again and the cycle goes on.

I noted in the small console window on startup an error message: nmbd 
is already running.