Hi I tried to search for the aneswer but this is simply to much to browse. And I am quite newbie. Problem: I created a public share, onto which I can log no problem, however I'd like to have homedirs available. I added few of the users I want to have this feature to smbpasswd but can't log in. The critical switch is a map to guest, as soon as I switch it from bad user to anything else. I can't login at all. obviously there is a problem with users. I am trying to browse the share from WinXpSp2 in the same network There is no domain - simple work group. thx, CUIN Kaczy revelant parts of smb.conf [global] workgroup = VSGROUP server string = Samba Server map to guest = Bad User log file = /var/log/samba31/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no printer admin = kaczy hosts allow = 192.168.1., 127. printing = lprng [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [public] path = /var/samba/public write list = @samba_vs force group = samba_vs read only = No force create mode = 0664 force directory mode = 0775 guest ok = Yes and smbpasswd kaczy:501:0E0F278EBE739C8BAAD3B435B51404EE:A31E49989822C5355F59AFC04C030892:[U ]:LCT-42C2D606: