Hello all, I am running samba-3.0.23c-2 on Redhat 3 enterprise as ADS. I am able to see the windows users and groups with wbinfo. [root@itbox /]# getent passwd windowuser windowuser:*:10000:10002:windowuser:/home/CAD/windowuser:/bin/bash when i log to the network with one of the xp client machine i see home share as well as a public share but i get access denied to both even after giving the public share chmod 777 to everything on. from the linux terminal i tried to: [root@itbox /]# smbclient //itbox/windowuser -U windowuser Password: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_UNEXPECTED_NETWORK_ERROR the second time I ran the same command i got: [root@itbox /]# smbclient //itbox/windowuser -U windowuser Password: Domain=[CAD] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.23c-2] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED all of my windows users are able to logon the linux termainl with their windows username and password [global] #ADS security = ADS workgroup = CAD realm = CAD.TESTDOMAIN netbios name = itbox preferred master = no password server = 192.168.1.6 client use spnego = yes server signing = auto encrypt passwords = yes #winbind winbind separator = + idmap uid = 1000-20000 idmap gid = 1000-20000 winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind use default domain = yes winbind cache time = 0 winbind nested groups = yes template homedir = /home/%D/%U template shell = /bin/bash #logs log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log log level = 3 max log size= 50 #extras socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.0. 127. [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No [data] path = /data public = yes writable = yes browseable = yes