Jens, I am sorry that I seem to have upset you by posting to the list. I have spent some hours time attempting to find a solution before posting although this does not extend to looking into the source or the packages but in testing a number of different configuration files and working throught the supplied diagnostics and documentation.
I will take your advice and check for bug reports in the future. However, my assumption throughout was that the most likely problem was me being stupid user which is why I did not assume it was a problem with the maintainer. For this reason I would not and did not mail the maintainer about problems like this before checking that I am correct via the list. Anyway the good news is that the solution suggested by Jim has worked fine for me, switching to a 2.2.10 kernel has meant that samba has started working loverely again. I don't mind moving to a 2.2 kernel at all. So this solution does not worry me. Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
