Thanks everyone who offered help and assistance.
I've found the reason why smbd would'nt 

Vmware also want to be a smb server

the reason nmbd was stuck in a loop

Jul 30 09:23:23 gb7tf nmbd[5254]: [2003/07/30 09:23:23, 0]
libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(756)
Jul 30 09:23:23 gb7tf nmbd[5254]:   Packet send failed to
192.168.1.255(138) ERR NO=Operation not permitted

This believe or not was shorewall, added the rule to accept all from
local to fw and it worked.
Now I've recently moved from bastille to shorewall, the later being
slightly easier to setup. BUT there is a major difference between them.
If you stop bastille it leaves the system open, shorewall dos'nt seem to
do this..

There is still 1 problem left, I cant set the samba password

smbpasswd has root RW, and the file is there.But if I try to change it
this happens

[EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# smbpasswd richard
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no terminating :)
Failed to find entry for user richard.
Failed to modify password entry for user richard

ideas /pointers  pleeease

Thanks 
Richard




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