hello folks: I figured out and would like to share with others the solution to the problem of when I wanted to run swat, I got the following error: cannot chdir/400 error the solution was to recompile and change every file, not just the configure file, to not use a prefix of /usr/local, since I installed my files in the prefix of /mnt1. next question, I can mount, from nt, the solaris samba directory, but I have to use the ip address, I can ping the machine, by just hostname, not fqdn just fine. What else do I need on the nt pc to see the server by it's server name? do I need to manually add, if I want to use encrypted "over the wire" passwords, every entry in the /etc/passwd file to the smbpasswd file or is there a conversion program. I couldn't find anything in the archives, but I must not have looked hard enough :-( thanks becki kain, gale group