I am unable to mount my home directories on my Fedora 8 samba 3.0.28 server, I have the following share defined: [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = no browseable = No writeable = Yes hide dot files = yes public = no create mask = 0600 force create mode = 0600 directory mask = 0700 force directory mode = 0700 and the permissions on /home/adam are: [root@bldg2 samba]# ls -al /home/adam total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 adam users 6 2008-02-12 15:03 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 17 2008-02-12 15:03 .. and either way I try to access it, I get the error: [root@bldg2 samba]# mount -t cifs //bldg2/homes /mnt -o username=adam,password=xxxxxxx retrying with upper case share name mount error 6 = No such device or address Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) [root@bldg2 samba]# mount -t cifs //bldg2/adam /mnt -o username=adam,password=xxxxxxx retrying with upper case share name mount error 6 = No such device or address Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) and what gets written in the log file is: [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(1200) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open_connection(786) smbldap_open_connection: connection opened [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(545) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: adam [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(309) check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [adam] -> [adam] -> [adam] succeeded [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(545) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: adam [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(545) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: adam [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1003) '/home/adam' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [adam] Error was Permission denied [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(1200) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_open_connection(786) smbldap_open_connection: connection opened [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(545) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: adam [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(309) check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [adam] -> [adam] -> [adam] succeeded [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(545) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: adam [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(545) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: adam [2008/02/12 15:17:59, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1003) '/home/adam' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [adam] Error was Permission denied