hi@all i tried to restrict access on some shares on my Samba 3.0 PDC via "valid users" entry in smb.conf -- snip -- [board] valid users = @users -- snip -- net groupmap list shows, that Domain-Users is mapped to users but if i try to access this restricted share as user from @users-group, access is denied, too without "valid users = @users" everything works fine i think the problem is here (debuglevel 10) -- snip -- [2003/11/26 16:00:01, 5] smbd/uid.c:change_to_root_user(218) change_to_root_user: now uid=(0,0) gid=(0,0) [2003/11/26 16:00:01, 4] smbd/reply.c:reply_tcon_and_X(266) Client requested device type [?????] for share [BOARD] [2003/11/26 16:00:01, 5] smbd/service.c:make_connection(862) making a connection to 'normal' service board [2003/11/26 16:00:01, 5] lib/username.c:user_in_netgroup_list(312) looking for user img of domain in netgroup users [2003/11/26 16:00:01, 5] lib/username.c:user_in_netgroup_list(314) innetgr is FALSE [2003/11/26 16:00:01, 5] lib/username.c:user_in_netgroup_list(312) looking for user img of domain in netgroup Dom?nen-Benutzer [2003/11/26 16:00:01, 5] lib/username.c:user_in_netgroup_list(314) innetgr is FALSE [2003/11/26 16:00:01, 2] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(384) user 'img' (from session setup) not permitted to access this share (board) [2003/11/26 16:00:01, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(113) error packet at smbd/reply.c(274) cmd=117 (SMBtconX) NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED -- snip -- (do you need more output?) no domain (TESTEVAN) is given, so this could be the problem ?!?! i also tried TESTEVAN\img without success as i already said: everything works in my domain with samba 3.0, but when i try "valid users" it stops working :/ plz help thx in advance -- "Matrix - more than a vision" ************************************************** Michael Gasch Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig Germany **************************************************