i tried with the option encrpted password= yes , security = user in my smb.conf file.. but when i did following on my root prompt #killall -HUP xinetd #service smb restart #smbclient -L localhost so i get the problem session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (bad password name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.) i'm not gettin why this is coming. i create the smbpasswd file in /etc/samba with smbpasswd -a linuxuser and i open the smbpasswd file it was ok with some encrypted passwd. but as soon as i change the security as share then no such problem. but with security = share when i add the passwd by using the command smbpasswd -a deepak (deepak is linux user and as well windows machine name) then passwd is added in smbpasswd file . but when i try to access from my windows 2000 machine named deepak then it opens the prompt for the user name n password. when i enter thee password which i had gived at the time of creation of deepak user on linux(my password was deepak) and at the time when i execute the command smbpasswd -a deepak but i'm not getting why i try to access the linux machine and after giving the correct passwd it says incorrect password. Helpppppppppppppppppppppppppppp. thanx n regards Deepak -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed