Hi, I've got Samba-3.0.1 running on my SuSE-7.2 server with "encrypt passwords = yes" option. It worked well. Here is part of the smb.conf file: ---- snip --- encrypt passwords = yes security = user password level = 8 map to guest = Bad User guest account = pcguest --- snip --- Now I decided to "downgrade" to plain text passwords. So I setup "encrypt passwords = no" and restart Samba. Then on my XP machine I applied WinXP_PlainPassword.reg and reboot. Now when I try to connect it keeps asking me for user name and password over and over again. I'm sure I'm giving the right password. Here is the log entry: --- snip --- [2004/01/13 12:59:09, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(810) smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User peter ! --- snip --- What I'm doing wrong? Any help is highly appreciated. Thank you Peter