I have been successfully using Samba 2.06 to access shares on an NT4 server for a little while now :-) However ... ... It appears that our NT server needs to run with a non-standard encryption algorithm and, since installing that, I can't persuade smbclient to list the NT shares anymore :-( smbclient -L ntserver will list the NT machines that ntserver knows about, but smbclient -L ntserver -Ubackup%password fails to authenticate. (session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess) I wondered if I could avoid encryption altogether by using the smb.conf setting encrypt passwords = no and then adding the NT registry key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters\] EnablePlainTextPassword:REG_DWORD=1 as described in the Samba WinNT.txt doc. However, this didn't seem to work, and now I'm wondering what, if anything, in smb.conf is used by smbclient. Does anyone know if I can persuade smbclient and NT to both use plain passwords, or will smbclient always try to encrypt my passwords, and get it wrong, because it doesn't know the correct encryption algorithm? Please could you copy any replies to me at julian.stevens@baesystems.com as I'm not currently subscribed to this list. Thanks in advance, Julian Stevens -- BAE SYSTEMS Land & Sea Systems Grange Road Christchurch Dorset BH23 4JE --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tel +44 (0)1202 404426 Fax +44 (0)1202 408308 e-mail julian.stevens@baesystems.com