I have 3 samba servers[2.2.2] running well on my network. Only problem I am facing is if I logout on a client machine and relogin with diff username and try to map or access a share on one of the member samba server, the server does not accept this connection. It says incorrect password. Only thing I can do then is run smbstatus | grep ipaddrofclientmachine to get the pid. After killing this pid then the connection works. Thanks in advance. Shekhar My smb.conf for ref. [global] workgroup = KINGDOM server string = Samba Server security = SERVER encrypt passwords = Yes password server = rhino log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 local master = No dns proxy = No admin users = shekhar [eLibrary] comment = Knowledge Online path = /var/elibrary writeable = no admin users = shekhar [MSDN] path = /var/msdn writeable = no admin users = @admin [MSDN1] path = /var/msdn1 writeable = no admin users = @admin