Vicky, I am having the exact same samba problem that you seemed to have back in 2002. I know that seems like a while ago but if you remember the solution to the following problem I would appreciate some help. One of the main errors I am getting from the logs from the windows clients is this: smbd/password.c:(1558) domain_client_validate: could not fetch trust account password for domain DOMAIN. And the errors that I am getting when I try to do an smbclient //bb6/user -d 6 is the following: added interface ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx bcast=xxx.xxx.xxx.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=192.168.2.4 bcast=192.168.2.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Client started (version 2.2.0). resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name bb6<0x20> startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /opt/sfw/lib/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name bb6<0x20> Connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx at port 139.. session request to BB6 failed (Not listening for calling name) resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name bb6<0x20> startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /opt/sfw/lib/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name bb6<0x20> Connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx at port 139 It may help to say that my windows clients are on a different subnet from my samba box. This error seemed to be just like yours, if you remember what you did, let me know. Thanks a lot, Chris Scott