Basso Viviana wrote: | The smbd.log gives me these two messages for every refused | connection | [2000/11/03 13:17:25, 0] smbd/uid.c:(104) | Couldn't set effective gid to -2 currently set to (real=0,eff=0) | [2000/11/03 13:17:25, 0] smbd/service.c:(425) | Can't become connected user! The gid of -2 looks suspicious: what account in /etc/passwd does this correspond to? Important: make sure "map to guest" is set to never especially if your guest account has a gid of -2: you may be getting people mis-maped somehow... --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com