Hello everybody, I hope somebody can tell me what is going wrong and how it can be fixed. To be honest: I have walked through the test document, and smbd and nmbd seem to work quite properly. However this is the case: Recently one of our smb-servers was suffering from a very bad HD. So I took another and installed linux on it (Slackware 8.1) and took most of the config files (among which smb.conf) and did some adaptions to make most of it work. This is the smb.conf file: # Global parameters [global] workgroup = ACTUERA.NL netbios name = INTRANET server string = Samba Server %v security = domain domain logons = yes encrypt passwords = Yes password server = stromboli unix password sync = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 printcap name = lpstat # add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser %u add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/%u %u dns proxy = No # auto services = printers # printing = cups # print command = /usr/bin/lp -d%p -oraw %s; rm %s # lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o%p # lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j # queuepause command = /usr/bin/disable %p # queueresume command = /usr/bin/enable %p [homes] comment = Home Directories writeable = Yes browseable = No #[printers] # comment = All Printers # path = /var/spool/samba # create mask = 0700 # guest ok = Yes # printable = Yes # print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. # lpq command = lpstat -o %p # lprm command = cancel %p-%j #[collection] # comment = Collection Share # path = /collection # force user = nobody # admin users = mil, wri # writeable = Yes # guest only = Yes [website] comment = Acceptation Webserver path = /var/www/acc valid users = mil, elm, cvh admin users = mil, elm, cvh force user = apache force group = apache writeable = Yes create mask = 0740 guest ok = Yes [intracc] comment = Intranet Webserver path = /var/www/intranet valid users = elm, mil, rbo, mhi, cvh admin users = elm, mil, rbo, mhi force user = apache force group = apache writeable = Yes create mask = 0740 guest ok = Yes [intranet] comment = Intranet Webserver path = /var/www/html valid users = mil, rbo, mhi, admin admin users = mil, rbo, mhi, admin force user = apache force group = apache writeable = Yes create mask = 0740 guest ok = Yes [tmp] comment = temporary files path = /tmp read only = yes And commented a few things out, to see if the other option would work... sadly enough it would not :( It now appears that however I can see the samba server in the network, I cannot access it, in no way... The server should synchronize passwords with the PDC (stromboli) (which can be pinged) but it will not... Here's a snippet from the log messages I get: [2002/06/23 09:16:51, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) unable to open passdb database. [2002/06/23 09:16:54, 0] smbd/password.c:domain_client_validate(1549) domain_client_validate: could not fetch trust account password for domain ACTU ERA.NL [2002/06/23 09:16:54, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) unable to open passdb database. [2002/06/23 09:16:54, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) unable to open passdb database. [2002/06/23 09:16:56, 0] smbd/password.c:domain_client_validate(1549) root@intranet:/var/log/samba# tail log.ibmtp-mil [2002/06/27 10:23:04, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) unable to open passdb database. [2002/06/27 10:23:04, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) unable to open passdb database. [2002/06/27 10:23:09, 0] smbd/password.c:domain_client_validate(1549) domain_client_validate: could not fetch trust account password for domain ACTUERA.NL [2002/06/27 10:23:09, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) unable to open passdb database. [2002/06/27 10:23:09, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) unable to open passdb database. Anyone who can help me out?