Hi list, I have a RH9 box at a clients site that needs to access a Win 2003 server to retrieve files every morning. This has always worked well but our client decided to 'upgrade' the windows server they are using to 2003 and I am having problems mounting the windows share to our RH system now. The thing that I cant figure out is why can I access the share and retrieve files using 'smbclient' but when I try to mount the same share I get the following error: cli_negprot: SMB signing is mandatory and we have disabled it. 28694: protocol negotiation failed SMB connection failed This seems very odd to me that smbclient works just dandy but mounting is out of the question. Here is my global section from smb.conf...we are not sharing any directories from the Linux system. Oh...samba ver 3.0.1-2 installed via samba-3.0.1-2_rh9.i386.rpm from the samba download site. Thanks for any assistance on this. Dave [global] workgroup = SOMEGROUP server string = Samba Server security = DOMAIN obey pam restrictions = Yes password server = dc711fs pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* unix password sync = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 client signing = Yes server signing = Yes client use spnego = No socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = No printing = cups