Hi, Thanks for your kind response for this bug. i tried running the following commands: sudo testparm echo $? and i got following things. root@ideas2it52-desktop:/home/ideas2it52# sudo testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384) Processing section "[printers]" Processing section "[print$]" Loaded services file OK. WARNING: state directory /var/lib/samba should have permissions 0755 for browsing to work WARNING: cache directory /var/cache/samba should have permissions 0755 for browsing to work Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions [global] server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) map to guest = Bad User obey pam restrictions = Yes pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . unix password sync = Yes syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 dns proxy = No usershare allow guests = Yes panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 printable = Yes browseable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/printers root@ideas2it52-desktop:/home/ideas2it52# echo $? 1 root@ideas2it52-desktop:/home/ideas2it52# Up to my knowledge i don't know what is the above result shows Please fix me the issue asap, because still i cant able to install new updates in my system. Same error occurs again and again. Advance Thanks for your reply On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:57 PM, James Page