list gurus ... I have read the list archives from last December until now. I have followed all of the advice given in those files to get past the "The account is not authorized to login from this station" error message. I get this error message ONLY from the NT stations on my network; the 98 boxes do not have this problem. I have also read Chapter 6 of the O'Reilly book a couple of times to ensure that I understand the authentication methods. I have Samba version 2.0.7 running on a Solaris 7 box. My smb.conf file follows at the end of this message. I have 3 different machines I am using to test this, a 95 box, a 98 box and an NT4 box. Both 95 and 98 boxes authenticate just fine. My NT box gets the above error message every time. After reading the O'reilly book my question is "if I am using encrypted passwords AND the private smbpasswd file AND my 95/98 boxes authenticate just fine, why doesn't the NT box authenticate correctly against the NT encrypted string in the smbpasswd file?" This is driving me NUTS! The username I am using is the same on all 3 boxes, the smbpasswd looks correct. The log files seems to be of NO help in determining why this NT box fails. I have ensured that under network properties->services->NetBIOS Configuration shows lana 0000 to be NetBT (NetBIOS over IP). What have I not done or mis-configured? I really do not want to disable encrypted passwords, but I will if I absolutely must. Any help would be greatly appreciated, PeteC ; /etc/smb.conf ; ; Make sure and restart the server after making changes to this file, ex: ; /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop ; /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start [global] ; Uncomment this if you want a guest account guest account = nobody log file = /opt/samba/logs/samba-log.%m lock directory = /opt/samba/lock share modes = yes workgroup = WILLIAMS netbios name = STAT-JREITER security = user password level = 7 browseable = yes status = yes user = pcharbon, root, jmarkuna hosts equiv = /etc/hosts.equiv.samba path=/export/home read only = no inherit permissions = yes null passwords = yes encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/opt/samba/private/smbpasswd [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes read only = no create mode = 0750 path = /export/home [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes ****************************************************************** Peter Charbonneau Williams College Office For Information Technology Jesup Hall - Room 112 Network and Systems Administrator 22 Lab Campus Drive (413) 597-3408 (phone) Williamstown, MA 01267 (209) 391-9821 (fax) Peter.Charbonneau@williams.edu ******************************************************************