Hello everyone, I am faced with a samba related problem, I have set up a PDC with a ldap backend. This PDC is working perfectly. I have also set up another samba box to act as my BDC. The BDC is working correctly as well. PDC:192.168.1.1 BDC:192.168.1.2 My PDC is currently sharing a few file shares. I would like my BDC to host a few file shares as well. I share the file like this,(this is in the BDC smb.conf file) [shared] comment = test share browseable = yes path = /home/shared public = yes valid users = @domain users when I browse to my BDC wit \\192.168.1.2\ I get a error saying that I do not have permissions to access this. The error message also states that the service is not started. In the BDC smb.conf files I have specified the following [global] workgroup = midgard server string = The Web obey pam restrictions = Yes passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://192.168.1.1 passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 logon script = logon.bat logon path logon drive = H: dns proxy = No wins support = Yes ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=example,dc=net ldap group suffix = ou=Groups ldap machine suffix = ou=machines ldap suffix = dc=example,dc=net ldap user suffix = ou=People panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d invalid users = root [shared] comment = test share browseable = yes path = /home/shared public = yes valid users = @domain users Can anyone explain to me what is wrong with my BDC config files. Why can't I browse to it? -- REGARDS, Andy Z