I have a handful of machines with all of the latest windows updates, and the WinXP reghack wont stay. If I enter the EnablePlainTextPassword reghack, and reboot, all is fine, until the machine is logged off or rebooted, then it reverts back to EnablePlainTextPassword=no Seems to be only affected on machines using Novell 4.83.6 SP1 client... although something else could be the cause. Machines with Novell 4.83.6 (no SP1) seem to work ok. using: samba-2.2.7a-1 server WinXP SP1 Novell 4.83.6 (SP1) client On a separate note, I've tried unsuccessfully to use encrypted passwords to try to bypass this problem, encrypt passwords=yes, and using smbpasswd and setting user's smbpasswd. Any ideas???