Dear list users, we have samba 2.2.2 (2.2.3 does not work the SPOOLSS printing very fine for us...) with security=server setting and password server = our DC in compat. mode. Now sometimes we get this error [2002/03/26 10:27:04, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(171) startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /opt/samba/private/smbpasswd. Error was No such file or directory [2002/03/26 10:27:04, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1368) unable to open passdb database. and the user is denied in access to samba shares/printers. It seems as samba try to look around the crypted pwd file, but we have security=server, so every work on authentication could be done by the server: why this try ? Thanks to all. Pls, reply also to original address, 'cause i'm not in list... thks. -- Dott. Sergio Rabellino Technical Staff Department of Computer Science University of Torino (Italy) Member of the Internet Society http://www.di.unito.it/~rabser Tel. +39-0116706701 Fax. +39-011751603