I have been reading John blair's book "SAMBA:Intergrating UNIX and Windows". There is a reference in the book to Authenticationoptions on page 66 for LAN Encripyted Password Support. I found these lines a version 1.9.16p11 # This is for SMB encrypted (lanman) passwords. # you may wish to add -DREPLACE_GETPASS if your getpass() is limited # to 8 chars # DES_BASE=/usr/local/libdes # DES_FLAGS= -I$(DES_BASE) # DES_LIB= -L$(DES_BASE) -ldes # PASSWD_FLAGS=-DUSE_LIBDES -DSMB_PASSWD=\"$(BINDIR)/smbpasswd\" -DSMB_PASSWD_FILE=\"$(BASEDIR)/private/smbpasswd\" My question is were these file deliberately let out because they are no longer needed?? I ask because I am using security = user and I am getting the error "The account is not authorized to login from this station" when I try to mount a samba drive from my pc. If you do a search of Microsoft's Knowledge base, it says the cause of this error is "Some non-Microsoft SMB servers only support unencrypted (plain text) password exchange during authentication". According to the SAMBA book, you can either compile samba with the above options or by making registry changes to each pc. Of course I prefer to touch only one samba server versus many pcs. Should these lines be in the Makefile or are they incorporated already? Thanks, Judy Padgett :-) AMD Web Server Admin judy.padgett@amd.com phone: 512-602-4290 fax: 512-602-5156 "I have not failed 10,000 times, I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work" Quote from Thomas Edison.