Hi All... I have spent a good amount of time searching through the list's archives, but have not had any luck with this issue. It appears that I have no problem connecting to a WinNT server with smbclient if the server is participating in the domain. However, if I'm a server (or NT workstation) that isn't participating in the domain, I never authenticate. In my case, I have a primary domain controller, backup controller, and two other NT servers (along with a bunch of NT workstations). All are running NT 4.0. I am using samba 1.9.18p8 on AIX 4.3. I have no problem connecting to a shared directory on the first two, but always fail, under the same exact share characteristics, on the servers not participating in the domain. I appreciate any help in this. I just need to get past this to get printing to a Windows client off an AIX box going. Successful and unsuccessful connects are below... Once I get this going, I will post what I did to get aix printing going from unix to Windows (assuming people are interested)... Thanks Alan alan@chelz.com The successful smbclient: [thecult:alan:476] smbclient '\\tktsrv02\alan' Added interface ip=172.20.23.37 bcast=172.20.23.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /usr/local/lib/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory Got a positive name query response from 172.20.23.92 ( 172.20.23.92 ) Server time is Tue Jul 28 16:53:39 1998 Timezone is UTC+11.0 Password: Domain=[TICKETING] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0] security=user smb: \> The unsuccessful smbclient: [thecult:alan:477] smbclient '\\tktsrv03\alan' Added interface ip=172.20.23.37 bcast=172.20.23.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /usr/local/lib/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory Got a positive name query response from 172.20.23.94 ( 172.20.23.94 ) Server time is Tue Jul 28 16:54:07 1998 Timezone is UTC+11.0 Password: Session setup failed for username=ALAN myname=THECULT destname=TKTSRV03 ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) You might find the -U, -W or -n options useful Sometimes you have to use `-n USERNAME' (particularly with OS/2) Some servers also insist on uppercase-only passwords [thecult:alan:478]