Hi. I've tried all the alternatives I cold find. When I attempt to access a share on a linux client I get this error: [2011/10/27 19:33:46.450093, 1] smbd/service.c:678(make_connection_snum) create_connection_server_info failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED I am accessing using kde and dolphin like this: smb://hh1/steve2 hh1 is the domain and steve2 is an ldap user who can authenticate OK from the command line and via kdm. The ldap server has the samba3.schema included. When authenticating via samba, I type the username and password but the same dialogue reappears again and again. Can anyone help? (the reason I'm trying this is because I have a liunx only lan but have some win7 clients coming soon) Opensuse 11.4. Here is smb.conf: [global] add machine script = /sbin/yast /usr/share/YaST2/data/add_machine.ycp %m$ domain logons = Yes domain master = Yes idmap backend = ldap:ldap://127.0.0.1 ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=com ldap group suffix = ou=group ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap ldap machine suffix = ou=Machines ldap passwd sync = Yes ldap ssl = No ldap suffix = dc=com ldap timeout = 5 ldap user suffix = ou=people passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://127.0.0.1 workgroup = hh1 os level = 65 preferred master = Yes [homes] comment = home folders inherit acls = Yes read only = No [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon write list = root