Lars, I was not using an account password. Looks like that is what was causing my problems. When I tacked the',' to the end of a shorter than eight character password, the connection worked. I played a little and it seems to connect up fine now with various combinations!!!! Thanks for the help!! Samba looks very promising in our environment. mark hocraffer [log in to unmask] ---------- %From: EXTERNAL MAIL / 1082, ?? %To: WILLIAM J. CROGHAN / 1092, 06; MARK A. HOCRAFFER / 1082, 47; %CHARLES D. MEEKER / 1082, 47 %Subject: Re: Samba Passwords %Date: Saturday, February 08, 1997 8:57AM % %To : [log in to unmask](.)/SSW % % % %------- %Mark, % %the password validation that I added for the MPE/iX version %of Samba needs a user ID in the form USER.ACCOUNT and the %password(s) in the form USERPASS,ACCTPASS (like ftp client). % %It worked for me with short passwords and even when one of %them was blank i.e. no user password for example. I do not %remember if I also tried both passwords blank i.e. "," only. %I fail to recall if I tried smbclient only or also PC... % %Can you give me an example for trying? (with XXX passwords) % %Lars %