Mac OS details: Our client was able to access her network resources without any problem until yesterday. She is using a high end Macbook Pro. She has the latest full version of Dave 7.1 installed. Her Mac OS X is 10.4.11 When she attempts to connect to these resources she receives the following error: "The Finder cannot complete the operation because some of the data in smb://........ could not be read or written. (Error code -36)." Attempts to connect to the shares have used fully qualified domain names: smb://server.my.domain/share_name Her Domain password is correct and working. We tested it out on a PC. Samba server details: client is on different subnet from samba server no evidence on samba logs of connection attempt by client # smbd -V Version 3.0.24-SerNet-RedHat smb.conf: [global] workgroup = MYWG realm = MY.DOMAIN netbios aliases = SERVER server string = SPH IIS File Server interfaces = eth2:1, lo, 127.0.0.1 bind interfaces only = Yes security = ADS password server = x.x.x.x log level = 0 passdb:3 auth:3 syslog = 0 syslog only = Yes max log size = 50000 name resolve order = wins bcast socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=20480 SO_SNDBUF=20480 wins server = x.x.x.x ldap ssl = no socket address = x.x.x.x, 127.0.0.1 load printers = no printing = bsd printcap name = /dev/null disable spoolss = yes hosts allow = 127.0.0.1, x.y.0.0/255.255.0.0, x.z.0.0/255.255.0.0, x.m.0 .0/255.255.0.0, x.y.n. hosts deny = all block size = 4096 veto oplock files = /*.*db/ strict locking = No "smb.global" 28L, 755C written [root@dandy ~]# cat smb.global [global] workgroup = MYWG realm = MY.DOMAIN netbios aliases = SERVER server string = SPH IIS File Server interfaces = eth2:1, lo, 127.0.0.1 bind interfaces only = Yes security = ADS password server = x.x.x.x encrypt passwords = Yes log level = 0 passdb:3 auth:3 syslog = 0 syslog only = Yes max log size = 50000 name resolve order = wins bcast socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=20480 SO_SNDBUF=20480 wins server = x.x.x.x ldap ssl = no socket address = x.x.x.x, 127.0.0.1 load printers = no printing = bsd printcap name = /dev/null disable spoolss = yes hosts allow = 127.0.0.1, x.y.0.0/255.255.0.0, x.z.0.0/255.255.0.0, x.m.0.0/255.255.0.0, x.y.n. hosts deny = all block size = 4096 veto oplock files = /*.*db/ strict locking = No We have googled our brains out and tried using NETBIOS names and ip addr's in place of fqdn's. Any suggestions out there? Helen -- Helen P. Nulty Systems Analyst UNC-CH School of Public Health Instructional & Information Systems CB# 7400 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 ph: 919-966-9136 email: Helen_Nulty@unc.edu