I'm using user-level security. Root can change passwords on the server. Normal users, however, either with swat or using smbpasswd directly, get the following error: 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 smith I do have the localhost entry as required in the hosts allow field, so I'm at a loss. Any advice would be appreciated. Jay -- Jay Emerson Graduate Student, Statistics Systems Administrator, Geology and Geophysics Yale University 432-3155, john.emerson@yale.edu