I can't work out why the samba server can't seem to authenticate at the moment. I stopped and started the nmbd and smbd and the LDAP server but to no avail. i've copied the output I get from some of the samba commands. I'm running it on a unix server, solaris 8. regards Anna root@gandalf # ./smbstatus Samba version 2.2.8a Service uid gid pid machine ---------------------------------------------- No locked files root@gandalf # ./smbclient -U abarnes -L localhost added interface ip=156.145.179.27 bcast=156.145.179.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=156.145.179.31 bcast=156.145.179.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=156.145.179.29 bcast=156.145.179.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=156.145.179.33 bcast=156.145.179.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=192.168.1.27 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE root@gandalf # ./smbpasswd abarnes New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: ldap_connect_system: Binding to ldap server as "uid=admin,ou=Administrators,ou=TopologyManagement,o=NetscapeRoot" ldap_connect_system: Binding to ldap server as "uid=admin,ou=Administrators,ou=TopologyManagement,o=NetscapeRoot" No user to modify! Password changed for user abarnes. Failed to modify entry for user abarnes. Failed to modify password entry for user abarnes