Hi, I have samba2.0.5a running on a sun ultra 2 with Solaris 2.7 installed. Clients are win95/98 and NT4 SP5. I am running nis and automounter on a sunos 4.1.3 server. I have had a number of randomly occuring failures to connect to smb shares reported over the last few weeks. These seem to occur only from the NT clients. The clients cannot see the samba server at all on some occassions. Other times they can see the server name in the network neighbourhood but cannot see the shares, they are then presented with an incorrect password prompt. They enter the correct user name and password but are still denied access to the shares list. Below is an extract from the smb.conf file nis homedir = true homedir map = auto.home log file = /var/samba/log/%m.log max log size = 1 lock directory = /var/samba/locks share modes = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0750 shares are made to users The output below is the smb.log file for a recent machine that failed to access the users home directory. what problem if any does the message indicate? [1999/12/16 08:15:07, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(521) suttung (192.83.238.74) connect to service jps as user jps (uid=380, gid=15) (pid 7373) [1999/12/16 08:26:38, 0] smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(2387) call_nt_transact_ioctl: Currently not implemented. I also ran smbclient -L to see if i could contact the PC from the samba server and got the following error smbclient -L suttung -U admin Added interface ip=192.83.238.33 bcast=192.83.238.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) I then asked the user to browse the neighbourhood. He could then see the server, was prompted for a password to access the shares. Once he reentered the password he could access the shares and subsequently mount them. Other users have reported that if they try a number of times (eg four) they do eventually connect. Any ideas what else i should test to help isolated the problem? Thanks Laurie Care CSIRO Network and Systems Administrator Manufacturing Science & Technology Email Laurie.Care@cmst.csiro.au Adelaide Laboratory Ph. 61 08 83039158 P.O. Box 4 Mob. 0418 201719 Woodville 5011 Fax. 61 08 83039222 South Australia