Hi, I'm having issues getting the 'valid users' directive to work. I'm using samba 3.0.23c (debian unstable package), and I'm using LDAP to do my authentication and NSS. That's all working fine, but for some reason I can't access the share when I have a 'valid users' parameter set. I can access it fine without that parameter, and files/folders are created with the correct owner and group, but it won't let me log on at all with the 'valid users' parameter, even if I put the 'michael' user in there. See as below: ------------------------------------------------------------------ (on client, without any 'valid users' parameter) [ root @ bob : ~ ] # smbclient -U michael //castro/backup Password: Domain=[CASTRO] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.23c] smb: \> mkdir test1 smb: \> ------------------------------------------------------------------ (on server, without any 'valid users' parameter) [ root @ castro : /srv/backup ] # ls -la drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 18 Nov 7 20:05 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 5 15:08 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 michael users 6 Nov 7 20:05 test1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ so it gets made with UID and GID correct. However, when I set "vaild users michael", I get: ------------------------------------------------------------------ (on client) [ root @ bob : ~ ] # smbclient -U michael //castro/backup Password: Domain=[CASTRO] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.23c] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED ------------------------------------------------------------------ (I've put a more verbosely debugged one below). Below is my smb.conf, and a debug=10 log can be found at http://sallaway.org/samba/debug-10.txt. (a debug=3 is at http://sallaway.org/samba/debug-3.txt, in case the first is too much to wade through. ;-) ) Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for any help you can give! cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------ [global] workgroup = workgroup server string log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d encrypt passwords = yes null passwords = yes guest account = nobody socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 map to guest = bad user deadtime = 3 security = user passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://ldap.sallaway.org ldap suffix = dc=sallaway,dc=org ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=sallaway,dc=org ldap user suffix = ou=People ldap group suffix = ou=Group ldap passwd sync = yes [backup] path = /srv/backup browseable = yes writable = yes valid users = michael