Hi, The registry needs to be modified only if you want to use non-encrypted passwords. That is to say, if you want your NT and UNIX passwords to be the same, you will need to do so. However, if you don't mind having different passwords for NT and UNIX, then modify the smb.conf file to say encrypted passwords=yes Then, you will need to create a file called smbpasswd, and use the smbpasswd program to add users and passwords to this file. Once this is done, you can browse the samba server. If you want to log into the samba server from the NT workstation, the you will need to get the samba-NTDOM version from the CVS tree. Check out the CVS howto for that. Best of luck. Santosh Krishnan