I am seeing very slow log-on's from our Windows clients to OS X 10.3.3 Server ( 30 seconds)- except for the 'admin' user. I have a suspicion.... The smb.conf file has auth methods = guest opendirectory In the OS X log I see Apr 12 13:24:37 xserveg5 PasswordService: client response doesn't match what we generated Apr 12 13:25:01 xserveg5 last message repeated 17 times Apr 12 13:27:02 xserveg5 last message repeated 60 times Apr 12 13:37:11 xserveg5 last message repeated 300 times Apr 12 13:39:11 xserveg5 last message repeated 60 times In my samba log I see stuff like search_records value(;ApplePasswordServer;0x4063a7602411818a0000000400000004,1024 35 12101246400916075134662......etc root@xserveg5.xxx.com:192.168.0.101) Now the interesting thing is that I changed the IP of the machine during the time I was setting up the server. The IP is now 192.168.0.2 NOT 192.168.0.101 ( DNS and RDNS are correct) Perhaps this has messed up things. Do SAMBA and OD exchange keys to authenticate 'things'. Do SAMBA and OD now disagree on keys after the IP was changed?? How do I get the two to agree? This is really aggravating our Windows user base. Andrew