I cant seem to figure out if Lan Manager 2 for DOS is fully supported by Samba. I can not get my DOS Lan Manager 2.0 clients to attach to the shares on Samba server version 2.1 & 2.2. The clients attach to NT 4 & Windows 2000 servers just fine.... Has this behavior been seen before ? (am I going to get laughed at because I am still using Lan Manager 2.0 ;) - I have my reasons..... <grumble> When sniffing the connection hand shake, the Samba server receives a "Malformed Request" from the Lan Manager client every time - resulting in an authentication failure message on the Lan Manager client. The same handshake between an NT or 2000 server machine and the Lan Manager client works fine. A notable difference in packet structure can be observed. It appears, from first glance, that the protocol code on the Samba server is using a data structure that has type short in the structure. Furthermore, Im guessing that Windows handles the short / byte ordering properly, while the *NIX & Samba combination end up zero padding the short to the nearest word or double word boundary thereby corrupting the authentication data packet. This problem only occurs when using Lan Manager version 2.0 (ie 2.2b, 2.2c - shipped with NT 3.51). The MS Client 3.0 works fine with Samba (Lan Manager version 2.1 & 3.0 shipped with NT 4 and later) Is this a known problem / limitation ? Has this been addressed / fixed and if so, in which version of Samba ? Is there a samba.conf configuration option(s) that can be set to work around this ? I have found an undesirable work around - add the Samba sever to a domain that is a MS Windows based PDC. Im guessing that the Windows PDC uses a higher protocol/encryption level to communicate to the Samba server while authenticating the Lan Manager client than the raw client connection. Thanks in advance, c maier.