hello all I am new to this smbtorture and want to use this smbtorture on my local machine as server and run the sample test. Plz help me ASAP. I am using ubuntu10.10 Following steps i performed:: 1) Created a group using groupadd -r ubuntu 2) added following lines in /etc/group ubuntu:user1,user2,user3 3) I have created users using useradd user1 and same for all 3 users 4) smbpasswd -a user 5) chmod -R 775 /srv/samba/share 6) chgrp -R groupname /srv/samba/shares 7) I have added a following lines in smb.conf file [ubuntu] path=/srv/samba/share comment=ubuntu system valid user=user1,user2,user3 public=no writable=yes usershare path = /usr/local/samba/lib/usershares userhares max share = 10 8) restart smbd 9) restart nmbd 10) root at ubuntu:/home/nishant# smbtorture //localhost/srv/samba/share -U user1%nishant -W ubuntu all actually i have doubt how to create a workgroup plz help me in following steps for using samba server as local machine. Plz help me ASAP Regards, Nishant Mungse