A password set from Windows XP requires a certain level of complexity: by default, Windows will not allow a password of "aaaaaa", but it will allow "Johnny1". I've been experimenting with a check password script so that both would be rejected. That worked. However, when I removed the check password script line from smb.conf and restarted Samba, Windows did not return to its original behaviour, but allowed me to set "aaaaaa". The default complexity checking had been removed. Two questions: 1) How do I re-enable the default behaviour? 2) Is that supposed to happen? Moray. "To err is human.? To purr, feline"