'llo, Sorry to barge in like this, but is there someone out there who can tell me what kind of error I'm looking for if the log files say : ... 05/19/1999 12:51:06 Transaction 2 of length 113 switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 3952) Domain=[IEPER] NativeOS=[Unix] NativeLanMan=[Samba] sesssetupX:name=[THOIEP] SMB Password - pwlen = 24, challenge_done = 1 Checking SMB password for user thoiep (l=24) Checking NT MD4 password NT MD4 password check failed Error smb_password_check failed Checking password for user thoiep (l=24) ---> 05/19/1999 12:51:06 error packet at line 588 cmd=115 (SMBsesssetupX) eclass=2 ecode=2 error string = No such file or directory ... Now I hear you say : password not correct ! But I can assure you it is ... Prove ? From a W95 machine I (that is THOIEP in the above) can open a (.doc) file from one of our (Linux) file servers, but when I want to save it again word is complaining about diskspace (of cource there is plenty of that), at the same time I see the above error lines appear in the loggings. (tail -f ...) I get this exact same error at a regular base, and this for ALL users that are connected ! Checking the loggings revealed that this error NEVER occurred in the past. Things I checked/did : - The 'smbpasswd' on the password-server looks intact (I could "read" it with an editor) so I don't think this file is corrupt. Is there some tool to verify the integrity of this file ? - I restarted ALL the samba-servers ... No change! But shutting down one of them produced a list of errors saying that some processes could not be shut down cause the pid did not exist ... You have to admit this is strange ! - The file-system of the file-server itself can not be corrupt cause it is a raid5 array, (linux soft raid -latest stable version- 5 disks in raid5 and one hot spare) so I expect the raid modules to start complaining if there is some kind of filesystem corruption ... but they are not complaining :-) - I did not add/remove/change a thing in the smb.conf files the last few weeks, so it can't be that. If you need more info, I'll be glad to provide you ! Thanks in advance, Tom ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If time is money this message was almost for free ;) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Melexis Elex ~ Rozendaalstraat 12 Transportstraat 1 . . B-8900 Ieper B-3980 Tessenderlo /V\ BELGIUM BELGIUM // \\ /( )\ E-Mail : THO@Melexis.com E-Mail : THO@ELEX.BE ^`~'^ Tel. : +32\13.67.07.56 Tel. : +32\57.22.61.49 Fax : +32\57.21.34.68 Fax : +32\13.67.21.34 -----------------------------------------------------------------------