hi i use samba 1.9.18p4 on solaris 2.5.1 my clients are NT 4.0 SP3 I finally success to use samba with authentification on NT server PDC on a [dir] section it's ok but on [homes] section i always some validation/authentification problems do i have to configure smbpasswd file or not i don't want to deactivate PlainTextPassword in registry here my smb.conf file [global] security = server password server = [our PDC ] encrypt passwords = yes [homes] revalidate = true valid users = %S comment = Home Directories de %S browseable = no read only = no public = no create mode = 0750 Is somebody can help me ? thank you . marc.waknine@espace.aerospatiale.fr AEROSPATIALE espace et defense departement SY/XJ route de verneuil 78130 Les Mureaux