Hello I use Centos 4.3 and samba installed directly by the OS. Ver :3.0101462 I have Xp pro sp2. On the windows I see the linux folder but as I try to open it it ask for a password. On samba I didn't provide any password. I tried the user and passwd used on my xp session but didn't work. On the great book http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ they say to set up a samba user. On Webmin you can't add any samba user. So I did like they said : smbpasswd -a jack (or anything) and it says : Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user xx . Does this user exist in your UNIX database ? Failed to modify password entry for user xx. whatever it's a real unix user or any name it gives the same error. What can I do ? Thanks a lot. Ted