Hello there. Got a quick question that seems kind of familiar. May be been discussed before. A quick look through password.c : authorise_login() seems to indicate that smbd does not check to see if the user's entry in the passwd file has a valid shell. Does smbd reject a username / password combination if the user has an invalid shell? Thanks in advance, j- -- ________________________________________________________________________ Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter Engineering Network Services Auburn University jerry@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )