Hi group, now after 6 hours non-stop trying to solve this issue I decided to contact the list! I actually just want to mount an samba share as guest via "mount -t cifs ...", but I alway get a "mount error 13 = Permission denied". I tried the following (and many else) mount -t cifs //172.16.0.3/ebooks /mnt/ebooks -o guest mount -t cifs //172.16.0.3/ebooks /mnt/ebooks -o user=someuser,password=somepass (both also with the sec options none,ntlm,ntlmi,ntlmv2,ntlmv2i or smbfs instead of cifs) and always got "mount error 13 = Permission denied". I just wanted samba to map me to the guest-account but it wouldn't!!!! I then tried mount -t cifs //172.16.0.3/ebooks /mnt/ebooks -o user=realuser,password=realpass (where realuser is a privileged user that really exists) and it worked!! I also tried mount -t cifs //172.16.0.3/upload /mnt/ebooks -o guest (where 'upload' has a force user/group option set. Look below in smb.conf) and it worked!! Yes, it mapped me to the right account!! But no matter what I did SAMBA-WON'T-MAP-MY-ACCOUNT-TO-GUEST on other shares than upload!!! Btw: I can connect with a windows-client and I can connect with smbclient and it works like a charm - which makes me much more confused ?:-( Is this a general issue or am i just too stupid to find the solution?? Greetz, M i c h a e l CLIENT-SIDE: gentoo 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 mount.cifs version: 1.10-3.0.24 SERVER-SIDE: gentoo 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 samba v3.0.24 --------------- smb.conf --------------- [global] workgroup = GALLIA netbios name = Asterix server string = Asterix log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m log level = 3 passdb:10 auth:1 winbind:2 max log size = 50 hosts allow = 172.16.0. 192.168. guest account = smbguest map to guest = bad user security = user encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no hide dot files = no domain master = no domain logons = no preferred master = no oplocks = no display charset = UTF-8 unix charset = UTF-8 [ebooks] comment = eBook Directory path = /samba/ebooks public = yes writeable = no write list = @smbroot force group = +smbroot directory mask = 0775 create mask = 0664 [upload] comment = Upload Directory path = /samba/upload public = yes writeable = yes force user = smbguest force group = smbguest directory mask = 0775 create mask = 0664 ------------------------------