Hi, I am having a lot of trouble in getting samba to support the direct tcp option in Windows 2000 listening on port 445? From what I have read you need to run samba from inetd instead of stand alone. So I added an entry in /etc/services : samba 445/tcp # Samba via TCP and a line in /etc/inetd.conf : samba stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/smbd I am using samba v2.2.3a. When I search for the server name I can find it in windows 2000 but when I click on the computer i get: The account is not authorized to login from this station. I can see incoming connection on port 445 from the client, and from the logs it appears there is an error after negotiating the protocol (log level 4): Selected protocol NT LM 0.12 [2003/05/06 15:54:53, 3] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(1092) receive_smb error (Success) exiting any ideas? success stories? thanks, Iain.