Brian, I'm sure by now I'm sure you have figured out why your Samba shares are not accessible. Set your samba logging level to 2. You'll be seeeing "DOMAIN+user unrecognized", in the smb.logs. If still not working do the following; in your smb.conf comment out winbind seperator = + # winbind seperator = + then: service smb restart I've been having same probs with three different builds of Samba on my new EL5 server. this cures it every time. until a machine reboot. Then i uncomment/comment out the above ,,,then server smb restart Then shares are accessable again. take Care, Barry Cisna