I have installed samba 2.0 on a solaris 7 system. Install seemed to go fine. I read the FAQ on testing connections. I can use the smbclient to connect from the localhost using a valid unix username. smb.conf used for testing is: [tmp] comment=temporary directory path = /tmp read only = yes valid users = jdr user = jdr testparms works ok ./nmblookup rutherford_nt Sending queries to 149.152.255.255 149.152.94.56 rutherford_nt<00> seems ok. ./smbclient -L wilson -U jdr Added interface ip=xxx.yyy.22.11 bcast=xxx.yyy.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0 Password: Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.0] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- homes Disk tmp Disk temporary directory IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 2.0.0) xxx Disk Home directory of xxx Server Comment --------- ------- WILSON Samba 2.0.0 Workgroup Master --------- ------- MYGROUP also seems to be ok. I tried changing the NT registry as described in the docs using the supplied .reg file. But when trying to map with net use I get: C:\TEMP>net use l: \\wilson\tmp /User:xxx The password is invalid for \\wilson\tmp. Type the password for \\wilson\tmp: System error 1240 has occurred. The account is not authorized to login from this station. A net view yields: C:\TEMP>net view \\wilson System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied. The nt name of this PC is "rutherford_nt" The account on the unix box is "xxx" I would like to be able to establish a share by specifying the user without it having to be the same name as the nt systems. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. John Rutherford, obvious new user.