Samba do the -right- mapping of home-dirs to [homes] share -without- knowing th name of the users??? I'll try to explain: I have 2 winxp clients and a debian server with dpkg -l|grep samba ii samba 3.0.23c-2 running. the name of the xp boxes is borg, dir the users working there are gusi, brigitte gusi have a passwd (on the xp box), Linux account and samba-passwd - all the same, thats OK (samba's working fine) brigitte has no password on her machine dir, but there exists a UNIX-account direktion and samba-account too - =with= a password. Brigitte gets the share 'direktion' without a password as homes-share - that's what I intended to do, but should not happen. Can samba read my mind? Ha anybody an idea how this is working? My smb.conf [global] workgroup = VERWALTUNG server string = %h server (Samba %v) wins support = yes dns proxy = no name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 security = user hosts allow = 192.168. 10.110.116. 11.110.16. encrypt passwords = true obey pam restrictions = yes guest account = nobody invalid users = root passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY preferred master = yes domain master = yes local master = yes guest ok = yes [homes] create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 comment = Home Directories writable = yes browseable = no [borg] writeable = yes wide links = no writable = yes path = /samba create mask = 0777 comment = File-Server der Verwaltung valid users = direktion,gusi public = yes ===============================================================================less log.dir [2006/10/31 11:24:24, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(941) dir (10.110.116.20) connect to service direktion initially as user direktion (uid=1003, gid=100) (pid 6588) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ brigitte on box dir initially as user direktion -- why does samba know this??? And why not asking for a password?(brigitte have none?) Any help would be appreciated Hans [2006/10/31 11:24:36, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1141) dir (10.110.116.20) closed connection to service direktion [2006/10/31 11:25:14, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(941) dir (10.110.116.20) connect to service direktion initially as user direktion (uid=1003, gid=100) (pid 6591) [2006/10/31 11:25:30, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(941) dir (10.110.116.20) connect to service borg initially as user direktion (uid=1003, gid=100) (pid 6591) [2006/10/31 11:25:37, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1141) dir (10.110.116.20) closed connection to service borg