I am running Samba 2.04b on an HPUX D370 Server and connecting with NT workstations (sp5). I have used mksmbpasswd to transfer the user accounts and set them temporarily to null passwords=yes and used '...NO PASSWORDXXXXXXXX.....'. Now when I go to set the user's password with smbpasswd (through rlogin xterm window) I get the following: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : code 131. Failed to change password for *user* (hosts allow = 123.xxx.xxx.,456.xxx.xxx.,localhost) Of course when I remove 'localhost' I get the following: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the tconX on the IPC$ share. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.). Failed to change password for *user* Can someone please tell me if I have missed a step somewhere... I can change the passwords as root and all the Shares work properly. ==smb.conf=[global] workgroup = ****** encrypt passwords = Yes null passwords = Yes os level = 34 preferred master = Yes Thanks, Ian Cameron Engineering Systems Administrator Knoll, Inc