I believe this may not be the problem that happens the first time. I have a RedHat 5.2 running with Samba Server 2.0.0. Everything work alright with secuity of smb.conf on server mode. security = server encrypted password = yes password server = PDC However, when I tired to change to user mode, I cannot pass the authorization. security = user encrypted password = yes smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd username map = /etc/smbusers I have followed the instruction to use pwdump to extract the smbpassd and created some username map. I even tried looking up FAQ, setting clear text logon, changing /etc/pam.d/samba. Nevertheless, none works. What I get is knock out from \\samba\IPC$ for incorrect password. Any idea. ______________________________________________ Tommy Ho <tommy@decisive.com> IS Team, Decisive Technology