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...of the string. Now here comes the tricky part. Make backup copy's of the files "/etc/passwd" and "/etc/shadow" first. Manually edit the "/etc/passwd" and "/etc/shadow" and change the machine name to include a string. In my case my winxp-machine was called hemel3, so I changed the name in both files to hemel3$. Then add the user to samba: # smbpasswd -a -m machine_name This works for now. Later I found out about the update: http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/updates/testing/3/i386/shadow-utils-4 .0.3-42.i386.html I didn't try it yet, from the inf...