I'm running samba3.0.23 on a fedora core 4 box. I successfully joined the samba server into an AD and shared home directories on the fc4 box. (Actually, the home directories on that fc4 box are mounted from a NFS server) I can access the top level of my home directory without any problems because the permission is set as 755. But I can't access directores with permissions like 700. So I guess my account from AD is not properly mapped to my linux account. (BTW, we're running NIS ) I'm new to samba, could anyone help me out. Thanks My smb.conf is as follows: [global] workgroup = HCIsmb: \> cd Desktop smb: \Desktop\> dir NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Desktop\* 50738 blocks of size 2097152. 28366 blocks available realm = HCI.CS.MTU.EDU server string = Samba Server security = ADS password server = HCI.CS.MTU.EDU log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 server signing = auto client use spnego = No socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = /etc/printcap dns proxy = No idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 template shell = /bin/bash winbind use default domain = Yes cups options = raw [homes] comment = Home Directories path=/home/grad/%S valid users = %S force user = %S read only = No browseable = No Here's what I did to access my home directory: [yifli@astra ~]$ smbclient //wingate/yifli Password: Domain=[HCI] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.23a-1.fc4.1] smb: \>ls . D 0 Fri Apr 20 11:06:50 2007 .. D 0 Fri Jan 12 14:21:35 2007 .AbiSuite DH 0 Fri Nov 19 16:49:13 2004 _J4JXS~F H 57 Mon Aug 28 11:11:43 2006 _0VF0B~F H 52 Thu Feb 17 10:54:09 2005 .Mathematica DH 0 Fri Sep 3 09:34:03 2004 .Trash DH 0 Thu Apr 19 11:43:54 2007 .WWW DH 0 Mon Aug 29 19:23:06 1994 ........ smb: \> cd Desktop smb: \Desktop\> dir NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Desktop\* 50738 blocks of size 2097152. 28366 blocks available