I have read the docs and I have googled, and I have been unable to fix this problem. I have samba 3.0 installed on RH8 and when I have settings like: [global] netbios name = DYER-PC-JO workgroup = DYERLAB server string = SMB Server Test security = share [public] path = /tmp guest ok = yes writeable = yes I can mount my share wonderfully in with both RH9 and OSX as clients. But this isn't very secure, so when I change this to: [global] netbios name = DYER-PC-JO workgroup = DYERLAB server string = SMB Server Test security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd [public] path = /tmp valid users = jorvis writeable = yes I can't connect in OSX or RH9. I use this command in RH9: [root@mylaptop samba]# smbmount //myiphere/public /mnt/public -o username=secret,password=supersecret but I get this error: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) SMB connection failed I have setup the smbpasswd file, ran "smbpassword -a jorvis" and set the password. I have an UNIX account on both the host and client and both have the same password. This connection method works fine when I have security = share and guest = ok, but I want to use user-level security. Can anyone tell me what step I am missing? Thanks! Joshua Orvis