When using security=server how does the Unix box running samba validate the user? Is the password passed over the network to the Unix box? If so is it in clear text? Will it still work after you install SP3 on the server? Thanks Richard | Richard Hockey email:richardh@epidem.uwa.edu.au | | Department of Public Health phone:+61 8 9380-1292 _--_|\ | | University of Western Australia fax: +61 8 9380-1188 / \ | | NEDLANDS WA 6907 *_.--._/ | | Australia v | "It is better to have tried and failed than to have failed to try, but the result's the same."