I thought it was a problem with the username/password until the localhost attempt worked. I think it might be something out side of samba causing the problem(ssl, pam, etc...) but I don't know where to look. I have no firewall or hosts.deny entries. I have also tried setting it up with SWAT, but I still get the same error. But again copying a working config from the other linux box didn't fix it. Any thoughts would be helpful. Pat Brown Giga Systems, Inc. (817) 577-5476