Hello everyone! I've searched the archives and seen this problem crop up a couple of different times. None of the solutions I've found seemed to have worked. Here's the synopsis: I've recently installed FC4 and samba shares for home directories should work right out of the box. Default settings, etc... I get this error: sohmc@bart:~$ smbclient //127.0.0.1/sohmc added interface ip=192.168.1.201 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Client started (version 3.0.14a-2). Connecting to 127.0.0.1 at port 445 Password: Doing spnego session setup (blob length=58) got OID=1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10 got principal=NONE Got challenge flags: Got NTLMSSP neg_flags=0x608a0215 NTLMSSP: Set final flags: Got NTLMSSP neg_flags=0x60080215 NTLMSSP Sign/Seal - Initialising with flags: Got NTLMSSP neg_flags=0x60080215 Domain=[BART] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-2] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME I've checked permissions, and even made everything world readable, still doesn't work. It gets weirder. I've shared my tmp directory using the provided smb.conf: # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes I can access this share just fine. However, I ran some permissions test to see if I could isolate the problem. When I use samba to put a file into temp, the file is copied correctly. BUT when I create a file outside of smbclient (e.g. vim) and save it into tmp, samba cannot see it. It says permission denied. I know what you're thinking...permissions are wrong. After copying the file using samba, I tried copying it again in the shell with another filename. Keeping in mind that I copied with permissions and everything. Still the same problem. I get the feeling that I'm missing something really big here. I've never experienced this problem with FC2 or FC3. I don't think architecturally there is anything different between FC2/3 and FC4. I could be mistaken though. Anyone have any other suggestions I could try? let me know! thanks! -- =======Mike Soh sohmc@cs.umd.edu http://twentyfifteen.tripod.com "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."