Hello, I have a simple network where usernames are not needed and every PC/user is allowed to connect to the samba server. With security=share, guest ok=yes, guest only=yes, this works great. But when using the IPC share for e.g. setting the time, there is 2 second delay before there is a response, which I would like to avoid. It seems the problem is that the IPC share is never guest only, so Samba always tries to authenticate as a non-guest user first, which fails, and causes the 2 second delay (anti brute force delay? configuration problem? (PAM complains about structure no longer valid)). If it would be possible to make the IPC share guest only, I think the delay will go away. Is there a reason the IPC share can't be customized like this? What about allowing to use a [ipc$] section in smb.conf to override the guest only parameter? (I saw in the source that the ipc$ share is initialized after loading the smb.conf entries, could that be moved to before loading the smb.conf entries)? Arne