Shane C Branch said: [snip] >>Can't help you with that, because I've always had DNS and/or WINS to do >>name resolution. If you are using broadcasts I believe that it takes a >>maximum of 12 minutes to get on the browse list. Are you talking about >> on >>the local machine? For example: >> >>[whooper@xxxxxxxx ~] $ smbclient -L myserver > > Yes, I was running the command on the local machine. When I try to login > to a > share from a windows client, I am just repeatedly prompted for user name > and > password. Also, doing net view \\servername from the windows box reports: > system error 5 has occurred, access is denied [snip] That sounds like either the "encrypt passwords" setting is wrong in your smb.conf, or you haven't set up the samba users correctly. See "man smbpasswd". -- William Hooper