fine on servers running samba-2.0.10-0.7 or samba-2.0.7-21ssl and RH 7.1. I cannot access home directories and shares on a server running samba-2.2.1a-20010711 and RH 7.1. The RPM for the latter version was homemade from the source tarball without any patches. The earlier version of samba allows access but the later version keeps failing with an bad username or password error. The global and homes section of the smb.conf file are identical (except for machine names) between the different servers: [global] workgroup = TOTALFLOOD netbios name = CONGO server string = Samba Server security = SERVER encrypt passwords = Yes password server = atlantic username map = /etc/samba/smbusers log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = No printing = lprng [homes] comment = Home Directories writeable = Yes browseable = No NT stations and W2K workstatios have no problems with either version. Log file on the failing machines show: [2001/10/24 11:33:50, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(1282) unable to open smb password database. [2001/10/24 11:36:28, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(541) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe [2001/10/24 11:36:28, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(565) write_socket: Error writing 190 bytes to socket 40: ERRNO = Broken pipe [2001/10/24 11:36:28, 0] libsmb/clientgen.c:cli_send_smb(89) Error writing 190 bytes to client. -1 [2001/10/24 11:40:25, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(541) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe [2001/10/24 11:46:25, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(541) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe On the machines where the connection succeeds I see: [2001/10/24 11:33:57, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(550) delta (192.168.124.7) connect to service stephen as user stephen (uid=501, gid=10) (pid 16427) [2001/10/24 11:33:57, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(550) delta (192.168.124.7) connect to service stephen as user stephen (uid=501, gid=10) (pid 16427) [2001/10/24 11:34:56, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(583) delta (192.168.124.7) closed connection to service stephen [2001/10/24 11:35:26, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(583) delta (192.168.124.7) closed connection to service stephen -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator Ace Flood USA 310-342-3602 stephen@totalflood.com