Hi, If this has been answered already please point me to the right place. The thing is I am having problems getting smbclient from samba-2.2.8a package to work properly. I have used Red Hat 9, Suse 8 and Gentoo before migrating to LFS 5.0. In all earlier distributions it worked fine so I think the problem might be LFS specific though my mind refuses to believe this. Synopsis of the problem: LFS release 5.0 Samba Version 2.2.8a [root@zion ~]# smbclient -M zion added interface ip=172.26.112.41 bcast=172.26.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0 Got a positive name query response from 172.31.1.11 ( 172.26.112.41 ) message start: ERRSRV - ERRaccess (The requester does not have the necessary access rights within the specified context for the requested function. The context is defined by the TID or the UID.) [root@zion ~]# smbclient -d 5 -M zion Serverzone is -19800 Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf" Processing section "[global]" doing parameter workgroup = MSHOME doing parameter netbios name = zion handle_netbios_name: set global_myname to: ZION doing parameter server string = zion doing parameter message command = /usr/bin/LinPopUp "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s doing parameter printcap name = lpstat doing parameter load printers = yes doing parameter printing = cups doing parameter log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m doing parameter max log size = 50 doing parameter security = user doing parameter encrypt passwords = yes doing parameter smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd doing parameter socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 doing parameter name resolve order = lmhosts hosts wins bcast doing parameter wins server = 172.31.1.11,172.31.1.12,172.31.1.23 wins_srv_load_list(): Building WINS server list: 172.31.1.11, 172.31.1.12, 172.31.1.23, 3 WINS servers listed. doing parameter dns proxy = no pm_process() returned Yes load_client_codepage: loading codepage 850. load_unicode_map: loading unicode map for codepage 850. load_unicode_map: filename /var/lib/samba/codepages/unicode_map.850 does not exist. load_unicode_map: loading unicode map for codepage ISO8859-1. load_unicode_map: filename /var/lib/samba/codepages/unicode_map.ISO8859-1 does not exist. added interface ip=172.26.112.41 bcast=172.26.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0 Client started (version 2.2.8a). resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name zion<0x3> getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name zion<0x3> resolve_wins: WINS server == <172.31.1.11> bind succeeded on port 0 Sending a packet of len 50 to (172.31.1.11) on port 137 Received a packet of len 62 from (172.31.1.11) port 137 nmb packet from 172.31.1.11(137) header: id=15953 opcode=Query(0) response=Yes header: flags: bcast=No rec_avail=Yes rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=Yes header: rcode=0 qdcount=0 ancount=1 nscount=0 arcount=0 answers: nmb_name=ZION<03> rr_type=32 rr_class=1 ttl=0 answers 0 char @...p) hex 4000AC1A7029 Got a positive name query response from 172.31.1.11 ( 172.26.112.41 ) Connecting to 172.26.112.41 at port 139 socket option SO_KEEPALIVE = 0 socket option SO_REUSEADDR = 0 socket option SO_BROADCAST = 0 socket option TCP_NODELAY = 1 socket option IPTOS_LOWDELAY = 0 socket option IPTOS_THROUGHPUT = 0 socket option SO_SNDBUF = 16384 socket option SO_RCVBUF = 16384 socket option SO_SNDLOWAT = 1 socket option SO_RCVLOWAT = 1 socket option SO_SNDTIMEO = 0 socket option SO_RCVTIMEO = 0 Sent session request size=0 smb_com=0x0 smb_rcls=0 smb_reh=0 smb_err=0 smb_flg=0 smb_flg2=0 smb_tid=0 smb_pid=0 smb_uid=0 smb_mid=0 smt_wct=0 smb_bcc=0 size=35 smb_com=0xd5 smb_rcls=2 smb_reh=0 smb_err=4 smb_flg=136 smb_flg2=1 smb_tid=65535 smb_pid=976 smb_uid=0 smb_mid=1 smt_wct=0 smb_bcc=0 message start: ERRSRV - ERRaccess (The requester does not have the necessary access rights within the specified context for the requested function. The context is defined by the TID or the UID.) Here is my smb.conf [root@zion ~]# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] netbios name = zion workgroup = MSHOME oslevel = 64 preferred master = yes domain master = yes local master =yes security = user encrypt passwords = yes domain logons = yes log file = /var/log/log.%m log level = 1 logon path = \\%N\home\%u\windows logon drive = H: logon home = \\homeserver\%u\windows logon script = logon.cmd [netlogon] path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon read only = yes write list = ntadmin [profiles] path = /var/lib/samba/ntprofile read only = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 #; World writable share for testing #[tmp] #comment = Temporary file space # path = /tmp # read only = no # public = yes #[home] #comment = Users' home directories # path = /home # read only = no # public = no Any help or suggestion is invited. A search led me to a posting with similar problem but no solutions. What especially bothers me is that I'm able to send messages to other people using Windows or other Linux distros like Gentoo or Red Hat but neither of the 3 LFS users in my knowledge on my LAN are able to send messages to each other. I mean only LFS machines seem to not recieve the messages. -- With Regards Vasant Tiwari @ QOTD: "Don't let your mind wander -- it's too little to be let out alone."