Greetings list, I'm trying to configure Samba 2.2.8a (running on Debian woody). I've also been trying to get PAM working so as to be able to authenticate against a Win2k network server. I think something I did to get that working has broken something else :( I can smbmount to a windows share. i.e. smbmount //windowsbox/chris /tmp/chris -o username=chris%password works with no problems. I can ping my linux machine from a windows machine. testparm seems to pass the smb.conf ok - unless the winbind separator message is fatally serious? ===== testparm ./smb.conf Load smb config files from ./smb.conf Processing section "[ch]" Processing section "[public]" Loaded services file OK. 'winbind separator = +' might cause problems with group membership. Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions ==== I cannot, though, see my Linux machine from windows. I can't even see the shares I have created; ==== thruxton:/usr/local/samba/lib# smbclient -U chris%password -L thruxton added interface ip=192.168.0.35 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 session setup failed: Call returned zero bytes (EOF) ==== hosts allow = 192. 127. host deny = all Does anyone have any ideas as to what I might try? I can't seem to find that many references using Google to that particular error message. Suggestions gratefully received ...