Hi, I am tring to implement Samba via HP's CIFS implementation. Not having any luck, I've poured through the mailing list archives searching on the ever popular NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error. Obviously I have failed to search correctly. Here is a picture of what I have done. Installed CIFS 9k Server on an HPUX11.0 box running NIS created a smbpasswd file from /etc/passwd added smb server on w2k server in the Active Directory Users/Computers (under computers) with the default being domain admins I realize this has been asked before, but have avoided sending this in, but am now stumped as well as embarrassed. Any help is appreciated .... Regards, John here is the out put of smbclient: ./smbclient -L hpux -N added interface ip=192.168.2.1 bcast=192.168.2.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Anonymous login successful Domain=[default] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.9] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- homes Disk apps Disk Apps Directory tmp Disk IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server (2.0.9)) Server Comment --------- ------- w2k hpux Samba Server (2.0.9) Workgroup Master --------- ------- default w2k the smb.conf file: # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the [global] netbios name = hpux workgroup = default server string = Samba Server (2.0.9) client code page = 437 hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127. log file = /var/opt/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 security = domain password server = w2k encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /var/opt/samba/private/smbpasswd hosts equiv = /etc/hosts socket options = TCP_NODELAY local master = yes read only = no preserve case = yes short preserve case = no dos filetime resolution = yes syslog = 0 acl schemes = hpux_posix hpux_hfs unix none max open files = 2038 #============================ Share Definitions ============================= [homes] [apps] comment = Apps Directory path = /apps/netscape browseable = yes writeable = yes guest ok = yes [tmp] path = /tmp the famous error message: # ./smbpasswd -j default -UAdministrator%passwd cli_net_auth2: Error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED cli_nt_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed modify_trust_password: unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine w2k. Error was : NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. 2002/01/21 12:12:59 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change password for domain default. Unable to join domain default. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed