We have configured a samba server 2.2.2 on a linux Redhat 7.1 workstation as a PDC. We have a problem when we want to log from a Windows 2000 client. Samba complains that it can't read /etc/samba/smbpasswd (which actually exists). For instance, here is below the log from one of our w2k client : [2001/11/14 15:09:01, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwrid(1459) unable to open passdb database. [2001/11/14 15:12:05, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(171) startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error was Permission denied [2001/11/14 15:12:05, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwrid(1459) unable to open passdb database. [2001/11/14 15:50:30, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(171) startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error was Permission denied [2001/11/14 15:50:30, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwrid(1459) unable to open passdb database. Have we forgotten something important in the smb.conf file ? Is it a bug ? Thanks in advance for any answer. (Please, do answer both to the mailing list and to this mail address). Gautier Koscielny