hi all, i have just installed last developped version of samba by cvs in order to have samba to act as a PDC for NTs boxs. all the tests in diagnostics.txt seem to be ok. but when i try to login from NT box with a valid login in the smbpasswd file , it fail with this error messages: -in NT box i have this msg: the system account of this machine is absent or passwd is incorrect. -and in log file of samba server (Linux) i can see this IPC errors : [1999/10/23 23:53:55, 5] lib/username.c:hashed_getpwnam(267) ipc$ not found and [1999/10/23 23:53:55, 1] smbd/ipc.c:api_fd_reply(3283) api_fd_reply: INVALID PIPE HANDLE: 703f [1999/10/23 23:53:55, 3] smbd/ipc.c:api_no_reply(3201) Unsupported API fd command but when i enter a name that's not correct or a login that is not in smbapasswd i have just a normal error that's the passwd is incorrect and in the log file there is not any IPC errors . any help well appreciated ali