Hi Richard,

> I've compiled and installed Samba 3.0.2a with GCC 3.3.2 wihout
> problems, but after that smbd or nmbd won't come up in daemon mode
> (smbd -D or nmbd -D).
>
> I've debugged with smbd -D -d 9, but I also don't see any problems
> there either.
> What I've noticed that smbd is consuming a lot of CPU time (1 of the 4
> CPU's).

Have you looked at the log files, e.g. /var/log/samba/smbd.log?
(but i guess you have done this).
What are the logs saying?

Anyway, i've compiled the same Samba version on my private file server.
It didn't work but instead of consuming lots of CPU power the daemons
exited as soon as i started them.

I tracked this down to an open file number issue.
I had a limitation of max open files in my old smb.conf which caused the 3.0.2a
not to work . After disabling the entry it worked fine.

You may want to check this, but chances are very little that this
will be your problem.....

Maybe you could post your smb.conf, too.

Asaf there is a new release on Samba.org (3.0.3pre1),
which you could also try.

Bye

Ralf