I have to opt-in every 5 minutes! I can be browsing the forums immediately after opting in, and it'll suddenly tell me I have to opt-in again. Yes I have stuff shared, and I know its accessible. My system is Debian unstable, and my machine name is FATLXCEPTION.

make sure nmbd is running correctly. I had the same problem, and it turned out to be my fault.

I'm checking into this.
-Ryan

my verification is fubar and it always give invalid user/password combination even if im loged in
BJ

Verification for what ?

This should be fixed now. Let me know.
-Ryan

to post a mesg
BJ

While you're at it, you might want to find out why your box is repeatedly pinging mine, and stop it. It's not very often, but it is enough to fill up the terminal I set aside for netfilter logging messages, flooding out the useful blocked packets. I'd appreciate that. Now to figure out who 131.151.191.96 is and tell them to stop it too. :D

(Oh, yeah, this is directed at FATLXCEPTION.)

most likely it's the getlmh.c program, on fatlxception, written to create an lmhosts file, for those to lazy to point their wins server to 131.151.65.253

OK, tell me your IP or your computer name and I'll filter it out.

Besides which, it shouldn't fill up anything. Its just one ping, and if that succeeds, an NMB name resuest. If that succeeds, it looks for your SMB shares. If you have the ping netfiltered out, you shouldn't be getting any of the rest anyway.