Hi all: =20 I have a FTP server combined with samba server. Pam_smbpass.so is used to provide authentication. Everything works fine in the beginning. But after a period of heavy access from FTP, the login will fail. I found the problem is resulted from secrets.tdb. It became an empty file (I use tdbdump to check the content). Pam_smbpass.so rejected the authentication when it can=A1=A6t check the SID in the secrets.tdb. My samba version is 3.0.25c. Previous version is 3.0.21c, and it did not have the problem. =20 Thanks for all advice, Latrell.