I have a local user acct (no LDAP or AD).? I have assigned this user to the wheel group.? It use to be able to access all shares on a mount. Recently I get "Access Denied" (Windows XP ProSP3) smb log says: smbd/vfs.c:932(check_reduced_name) smbd[16758]: check_reduced_name: couldn't get realpath for /mnt/users/backup/* The user is a local administrator on WinXP and is sending those auth credentials.? The user has no trouble accessing their own share of course. Have any others run into this?? Should I try something like this (this is the only thing that I can come up with in the many weeks of research) net groupmap add ntgroup="Builtin Admins" unixgroup=domadm rid=544 type=d thank you in advance! ?