Hi all, I apologize if this question has been answered before. I'm very new to setting up samba server in RedHat linux 6.0 and accessing it from windows NT 4.0 SP3. I set up samba server (2.0.3) with encryption so that when I access it from NT, the NT box won't complain about sending password in a clear text over the wire. I created /etc/smbpasswd using mksmbpasswd.sh utility --snip of smb.conf ---- encrypt passwords = yes ;security = server hosts allow = all guest account = pcguest guest ok = yes [public] path = /home/pcguest public = yes guest ok = yes writable = yes printable = no --- end of smb.conf ---- When I tried to access the public share from NT using pcguest%pcguest as a user and password I got an error message in /var/log/samba/log.sbm: [1999/05/17 17:43:38, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(506) Account for user 'pcguest' was disabled. [1999/05/17 17:43:38, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(506) Account for user 'pcguest' was disabled. I already created a unix user of pcguest in /etc/passwd and give a guest ok = yes permission. Even worse I can't access it from local machine using a command : host $ smbclient //cy25013-7/public -Upcguest%pcguest Added interface ip=166.34.21.214 bcast=166.34.23.255 nmask=255.255.248.0 Got a positive name query response from 166.34.21.214 ( 166.34.21.214 ) session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.) Can somebody point me to the right direction please! Thanks in advance. Aris -- "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh)