Hi, I had been using RedHat 6.2, Where when I used To Add a user using userconf the same used to be automatically appended to the smbpasswd file. Hence I did not explicitly added any user for Samba Usage. Now when I have lately upgraded to RedHat 7.x the same functionality does not seems to be available, I have tried few changes in smb.conf but in vain. It's an Interanet setup, and number of users to be created is quite large, they would access the Linux Server from M$ machines. Security is not major issue and would just be using the [homes] share. Kindly Help. Sachin...... _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus