Dear *SM gurus, I have observed a strange behaviour from a client that seems to be in a loop while opening new sessions with the server. Environment: ADSM server 3.1.2.0 running on OS/390 2.8, WinNT client 3.1.0.6 running on WinNT 4.0, Service Pack 5. I see a series of messages: 10/23/2000 22:49:00 ANR0406I Session 1122 started for node BONNIE (WinNT) . (Message repeated 25 times with incrementing session numbers) 10/23/2000 22:49:00 ANR0429W Session 1122 for node BONNIE (WinNT) refused - maximum server sessions (25) exceeded. Then these 25 sessions just sat there until they timed out. Meanwhile, no other client can start a session because the misbehaving one has them all, so all the other clients miss their backups. I'm thinking I may have seen something like this a long time ago with ADSM version 1 or 2, but it is so long ago that the details have vanished into the fog of memory. Can anyone help on this? Thanks, www. ___________________________________ William White Mainframe Services Group International Computing Centre (ICC) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]