Hello and greetings from NYC, I'm looking to set up a basic file server for my NT and SGI machines, and while NIS is just file for the SGI side, Samba seems like a good answer for the NT workstations that will need to log in. I'm looking for some help in making this work. Basically, All I would like to do is create shares for each user (Actually the name of the job were working on), so that when the user logs onto the Samba station, the are directed to that share and that share only. This seems simple enough, however, I seem to be having a problem with the usernames. Although the user account has been created within IRIX, for example: <job1> with no password, samba dosen't recognize this as a valid user account. I understand that samba keeps a sperate user passwd file within the bin directory, however I'm unclear how to replicate my IRIX accounts in /etc/passwd into the samba passwd file, or what I need to set in the smb.conf file. The instructuions make reference to a shell script that would do this, but I cannot find it anywhere. Could someone give me some instruction on how to accomplish this task with samba? Thanks, and I truly appreciate the help. Mike Kelleher SMA REALTIME