Hi all ! I am new and novice to this group. At the moment, I am trying to replace the existing Netware file server running netware 3.12 by Samba server (or smb ?). I just simpy use the compiled version of software came with the Redhat distribution. It does not seem to work fine. What I am experiencing is when the client machines try to connect to the server, sometime it can connect, sometime cannot. When the server refuses, it simply says "No permission to access". I further discover that, when I kill the smb server which is supposed to connect to the client I am using, then the connection can be established. I have to do this for many machines... However, if the user has no root access, s/he cannot kill the server and re-establish the connection. Could you all please let me know how this problem can be solved ? Thank you. Panyarak Ngamsritragul Department of Mechanical Engineering Prince of Songkla University.