SunFreeWare Samba 3.0.10 on Solaris 10. Installed, and able to authenticate locally on the samba box after 'smbpasswd -a userid'. But....attempt to map a network drive from W2K fails at authentication (the UNIX protocol in use is NIS). Heres' what's gacked up in the log file: ========== check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [rxmc1821] -> [rxmc1821] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER at the command line: ypcat passwd | grep rxmc rxmc1821:94taElXKZTzcc:4060:5600:Robert Metcalf Contractor,4-xxxx:/usr2/cuser/rxmc1821:/bin/csh ====== Any help appreicated. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com