Hi there, I am experiencing some odd behaviour with my samba server (version 2.0.7 running on mandrake 8.0). The server comes up ok and appears on the browse list, but you cannot list the shares on it. The following error shows up when I use smbclient -L: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in tree connect.) I think I have figured out what is going wrong from the log files. Just after the login has been authorised, samba attempts to change to a directory (I presume for holding some temporary files relating to the connection). On a different server that I have this works fine and it changes to the /tmp directory. On the server that is failing though it seems to be trying to use /root/tmp which it does not have permission to access. The snippet from the log file is here: [2001/12/11 11:50:17, 3] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(816) ACCEPTED: guest account and guest ok [2001/12/11 11:50:17, 3] smbd/service.c:make_connection(441) Connect path is /root/tmp [2001/12/11 11:50:17, 3] lib/doscalls.c:dos_ChDir(333) dos_ChDir to /root/tmp [2001/12/11 11:50:17, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(501) Can't change directory to /root/tmp (Permission denied) [2001/12/11 11:50:17, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(133) error packet at line 166 cmd=117 (SMBtconX) eclass=2 ecode=6 [2001/12/11 11:50:17, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(143) error string = Permission denied Hopefully someone out there can let me know how to change what directory samba tries to use for whatever it is doing. Thanks in advance... Dave ---------------------- Mr. Dave Townsend Research Engineer Brass Bullet Ltd Pemchurch Chambers 30-32 Cradock Street Swansea SA1 3EP Phone: +44(1792) 417227 Fax: +44(8700) 558729 Website: www.brass-bullet.co.uk