I have a problem using encrypted passwords which seems to be nothing to do with NT. I can connect to my Solaris server using unencrypted passwords by disabling password encryption on the NT workstation I am using for testing but that is not a realistic option in the long term. Setting up for encrypted password (encrypted passwords = yes; create smbpasswd file, setting a password for my user as root) nothing can connect. "NT reports Incorrect password or unknown userid for \\openlink1" smbclient and smbpasswd both fail with invalid password messages. Sample session below. =====================$ su - Password: Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.6 Generic August 1997 # /hfx/opt/samba/bin/smbpasswd jstre New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Password changed for user jstre $ smbclient //openlink1/public Added interface ip=10.214.19.20 bcast=10.214.19.255 nmask=255.255.254.0 Password: session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.) $ smbpasswd Old SMB password: New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : The specified password is invalid. Failed to change password for jstre ======================= Putting NO PASSWORD in the smbpasswd file and setting "null passwords = yes" let me in from smbclient, but not from NT. This implies to me that there is something wrong with smbpasswd somewhere, but I'm at a loss. Any help would be appreciated. I'm using Samba 2.0.2 on Solaris 2.6, clients NT 4 SP3 Jim Smith, Technical Architect Halifax Group Treasury, 33 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1HZ Tel: 0171 574 8095 Fax: 0171 574 8132 Mob: 0385 778518 Halifax 01422 391332