Hello List, I just upgraded from openSUSE 10.3 to 11.1, had no problems with samba until the update (Samba Version should have been 3.0.?). After the update (Samba 3.2.4-5.2). Windows 98SE prompted for the password, saying it was wrong. Using smbclient id didn't have any problems. Tried around enabling/disabling password encryption on both sides, lanman auth, but no luck. So i upgraded to Samba 3.4.2-1.1 (suse buildservice, samba stable). Now Windows 98SE doesn't even find the server anymore in the network neighborhood. Even accessing by \\IP doesn't work. Getting following error on connecting of network devices: The following error occured while reconnecting [...] Permanent connection not available. I set the samba logs to max verbosity but getting no entry at all. No firewall is blocking the network interface. (Can connect to server port 139 using telnet from windows, getting log entrys but also can't access the windows 98SE shares using smbclient from the server, but nmap says the netbios-ssn port is open) All Windows NT based clients work(ed) perfectly with all of the mentioned versions. Here the global part of my smb.conf: [global] workgroup = PANE printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw map to guest = Bad User include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: usershare allow guests = No add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$ domain logons = Yes domain master = Yes netbios name = PANE security = user passdb backend = smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd local master = Yes os level = 65 preferred master = Yes wins support = Yes encrypt passwords = Yes lanman auth = Yes client lanman auth = Yes ntlm auth = Yes log level = all:10 Thanks for assistance, Paul