On a small home network, I am trying to move from simple share based security to user to openldap. I have simple share working fine, as long as no authentication is occuring. Obviously not at all secure! The two immediate problems are when I go to security=3Duser on the NT authentication side I get: [Alan@Webby Alan]$ smbclient //webby/WinShare -U Alan added interface ip=3D192.168.0.5 bcast=3D192.168.0.255 nmask=3D255.255.255.0 Password: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE [Alan@Webby Alan]$ and on setting up ldap: [root@Webby openldap]# ldapadd -x -h localhost -D "cn=3Dmanager,dc=3DWEBBY,dc=3Dcom" -f base.ldif -W Enter LDAP Password: ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server I have no NT server, a pair of win98 boxes and a RH linux 7.2 box samba is running on. I'm sure I have some errors in my configuration files, but have had an aweful time making sense of the 200 readme's out on the web. smb.conf is: [global] netbios name =3D Webby workgroup =3D FAMILY server string =3D House Samba Server ; security =3D SHARE security =3D USER smb passwd file =3D /etc/samba/smbpasswd log file =3D /var/log/samba/log.%m local master =3D yes max log size =3D 50 domain master =3D yes domain logons =3D no name resolve order =3D hosts wins lmhosts bcast socket options =3D TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=3D8192 SO_SNDBUF=3D8192 dns proxy =3D No remote announce =3D 192.168.0.255 hosts allow =3D 192.168.0. 127. printing =3D lprng ldap ssl =3D off encrypt passwords =3D no [printers] comment =3D All Printers path =3D /var/spool/samba guest ok =3D Yes printable =3D Yes browseable =3D Yes [tmp] comment =3D Temporary file space path =3D /tmp writeable =3D Yes guest ok =3D Yes [WinShare] comment =3D WinShare path =3D /export/WinShare writeable =3D Yes guest ok =3D Yes [Alan] comment =3D mh Code files path =3D /usr/local/Alan writeable =3D Yes guest ok =3D Yes [mh] comment =3D mh directory path =3D /usr/local/mh writeable =3D Yes guest ok =3D Yes Epson Inkjet Printer FAQ: http://welcome.to/epson-inkjet