> Maybe try "rpm -V samba" to verify all the samba files. You get any > output then you have problems. I take it this output: # rpm -V samba S.5....T c /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb S.5....T c /etc/samba/smbusers .......T c /etc/sysconfig/samba merely shows that these are files that don't precisely match the rpm contents? In any case, earlier today we did a complete reinstall of the rpm, and in that form it failed. /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb has had some edits in testing stuff, but is back to the original. /etc/samba/smbusers we most recently had as # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ... root = administrator admin # nobody = guest pcguest smbguest but removing that # from the nobody line doesn't fix things - although it brings it into identity with a Redhat version of the same file on another box. /etc/sysconfig/samba is also back to its original form, which precisely matches Redhat in this, too: # Options to smbd SMBDOPTIONS="-D" # Options to nmbd NMBDOPTIONS="-D" # Options for winbindd WINBINDOPTIONS="" It's crazy. We have 3 Redhat boxes configured the same, and they work. But this one CentOS has this bizarre failure. I've seen bad init.d files in my career in various distros, but this one should be too simple to fail. Yet it does. I thank everyone for their suggestions. I'm afraid this is giving CentOS a bad rep among my coworkers. Y'all are great though. Should I be filing a bug report on this? Whit