Hi All, Just as I thought that I had Samba working properly, I got a failed backup this morning. I'm running Samba 2.0.4b on a Red Hat 5.2 machine. The backup program is Backup Express running on an NT4 workstation. I'm using lmhosts to resolve netbios names and hosts to resolve IP addresses, both the Linux and NT boxes have these files. This morning's backup report showed "access denied" messages for all the shares on the Samba server. Backup Exec ran from my NT account and I've listed my username as an 'admin user' for all the Samba shares that need backing up. When I look at the Samba log for the machine I see 'out of file structures' and 'incorrect value for desired access to file'. Here's an extract from the log: --- [ begin extract ] --- [1999/11/30 10:11:49, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(320) geoff logged in as admin user (root privileges) [1999/11/30 10:11:49, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(488) gateway (172.24.1.5) connect to service chris as user geoff (uid=500, gid=500) (pid 641) [1999/11/30 10:11:49, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85) ERROR! Out of file structures [1999/11/30 10:11:50, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85) ERROR! Out of file structures [1999/11/30 10:11:51, 0] smbd/files.c:file_new(85) ERROR! Out of file structures [1999/11/30 10:11:51, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:map_share_mode(410) map_share_mode: Incorrect value 0 for desired_access to file \ [1999/11/30 10:11:51, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:map_share_mode(410) map_share_mode: Incorrect value 0 for desired_access to file \ --- [ end extract ] --- Although I could browse the Samba shares from the NT machine, I could not copy any of the files -- I got an access denied message. When I restarted Samba, everything returned to normal. However, I still haven't got a good backup. Here's the [global] section and one share from my smb.conf file: [global] workgroup = GJCTECH netbios name = COLOSSUS encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE create mask = 0777 force create mode = 0777 [company] comment = Company data path = /home/company valid users = jan geoff administrator admin users = jan geoff administrator read only = No Any ideas? TIA, Geoff Lane Cornwall, UK geoff@gjctech.co.uk