Hi, I am running samba 2.2.7 and am trying to access a samba file as a virtual directory from a Windows NT IIS web server. I am currently using security=server, encrypt passwords = yes ,password server = test1 test2 test3, and dead time = 10. When I first start the samba server the virtual directory in IIS works fine. After some time, I think that it is the dead time, I can no longer connect to the virtual directory through IIS. When I look at the samba log I see the following errors. 2003/02/05 10:36:25, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1369) unable to open passdb database. 2003/02/05 10:36:25, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(545) Couldn't find user 'xxx' in passdb. 2003/02/05 10:36:25, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(1001) Rejecting user 'xxx': authentication failed I suspect that the problem is with reauthentication after the dead time has been reached and it isn't connecting with the NT password server. Any Ideas, comments, help , suggestions, smart remarks would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Scott L. Wood