Hallo, John, Du meintest am 13.05.09: >> Thanks for help, yes i moved them too. In fact i moved all >> /etc/samba/* > But the tdb files should not be in /etc/samba should they? Here (Slackware): "/etc/samba/smb.conf" sets the directory for the *.tdb files lock directory = /var/lock/samba Viele Gruesse! Helmut