greetings! i'm in the process of doing a 1st time set up of a samba server and i've gone through a lot of documentation. running redhat 4.2 kernel 2.0.34, samba 1.9.16p113-rh. yeah yeah yeah i know it's old but i'm experimenting and getting my feet wet. however, when i 'tail -f /var/log/messages', i always see the message regarding PAM_pwdb. the effect is i can't see anything in any subdirectories below a share. for example in my home dir i've created a sub-dir placed a file in it. i go to win -explorer expecting to see the sub-dir and file and pehaps open it. when i double click on the folder, windows returns "the folder does not exist" even though it was picked up by the the explorer. to complicate it a bit, i've logged on to the console as myself and created a sub-dir in my home at the unix level, gone back to win-explorer and it tells me the same thing. well when this happened i thought to myself, 'self, upgrade to the latest version.' same results. iv'e gone through much documentation practically the entire set of samba digests. i would think this is an easy fix but you all probally know best. if you have any ideas, suggestions, or direction pleas let me know. regards, yusuf ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com