samba-3.0.6 removes the symlink /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0 that points to /usr/lib/samba/libsmbclient.so when re-emerging it. Check it out. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge samba; emerge samba Portage 2.0.50-r9 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 distcc 2.17 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe -fforce-addr -fforce-mem -falign-functions=4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe -fforce-addr -fforce-mem -falign-functions=4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache distcc fixpackages sandbox usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.caliu.info/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb blender-game bluetooth bootsplash bzlib c++ caps cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cdrom chroot clamav clanVoice codecs crypt cups curl dga dio directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr encode erandom esd ethereal fastcgi fbcon flac flash foomaticdb freetype gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg junit kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww linguas_el linguas_es mad memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn ncurses nls nocd nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga szip tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype ttf unicode usb video_cards_nvidia videos wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
can you try again with samba-3.0.6-r1 ?
Now it does work. Thank you.