Hi Samb gurues, I have a weird problem with samba on my new 6.1 Linux box. I cannot connect to any shares with a valid users = someuser, except>>>>>>> the user I defined as the same name as my Nt box .. I.e. I added a user by the name of gyr. I have a NT box that I am testing with, its name is also gyr . If I connect to the test share from my Nt box gyr, it connects fine. I cannot get any other shares to connect from gyr using a different user. Also If I go to the office next to me another NT box named something else it will not connect to the gyr/user share. Weird............... I have tried using encrypted passwords, and non encrypted changing my Nt registry to reflect EnablePlainTexttPassword and so forth. I have about 15 other samba boxes and have used samba quite a bit, but this one has stumped me. ANY IDEAS ANYONE I have ran the testparms checking for syntax everything is fine. NMB looks good, smb looks good in all the tests!! , I can connect to any share from any machine that has no authentaction I.e. guest ok. here is what my log.smb file says about it if I try to connect to a share that has another user associated with it other than the gyr user Got device type A: [1999/11/04 10:10:11, 2] smbd/service.c:make_connection(268) Invalid username/password for erob_wip [1999/11/04 10:10:11, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(138) error packet at line 163 cmd=117 (SMBtconX) eclass=2 ecode=2 [1999/11/04 10:10:11, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(143) error string = No such file or directory