Hi All, Well, after (literally) days of frustration trying to get my Win2K SP2 PC to connect to a Solaris 7 server running Samba 2.2.3a, I've given up. A couple of years ago I installed Samba on the same Solaris server and had it working properly with little trouble. This time, I re-installed it two or three times, read all the relevant docs multiple times, combed the web and all the newsgroups I could find, tried everything I could imagine, and finally posted my problem to this group (but received no response). I know others have had my problem. I got as far as step 8 in the DIAGNOSIS.txt document, then hit a brick wall. My PC could not detect my server in Network Neighbourhood; I received an "Access Denied" message in response to my "net view \\server" request, and an "invalid username/password" response to my "net use x: \\server\share" command, even though I know the username and password were both correct. This was the behaviour both with and without encrypted passwords. What to do? One last thing: I downloaded Samba 2.0.6 (I just picked a version). In terms of compilation and installation, I did everything exactly as I did with 2.2.3a. When I got to step 8 in DIAGNOSIS.txt, I did a "net view \\server" from the PC, and it worked! Even better, everything else I've tried has also worked. I'll try upgrading to a more recent version than 2.0.6. I still have no idea why 2.2.3a has given me such grief, but if anyone has any ideas on this matter I would be interested in hearing them. Darren Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darren Smith Tel: (709)737-2336 Earth Sciences Department Fax: (709)737-2589 Memorial University of Newfoundland E-mail: darren@esd.mun.ca St. John's, Newfoundland A1B 3X5 Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------