Dear All I have sent this message to various Australian Samba lists for more than a week. I have not received a reply. I'm hoping that someone can answer my question....... After trying to work this one out for two days I've given up and thought I'd try the internet for more sensible answers. I've set up an SuSE 7.1 Intel based computer to operate as a Samba server for a Win 98 network. I did all of the diagnostic tests that are described by Andrew and this is what came back....... testparm smb.conf shows that nothing is wrong anywhere. .... smbclient -L BIGSERVER reveals....... " session setup failed: ERRSRV -ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.) " I get the same result from ..... smbclient '\BIGSERVER\TMP' When I try nmblookup -B BIGSERVER__SAMBA__ the screen locks up until I do Ctrl+c. Anyone suggest what this might be about ? Another clue is that if I connect the Samba server to the network and open up Network Neighborhood in Win 98 I can see that all of the computers have disappeared from the window. I would send in smb.conf but I'm afraid that there isn't a floppy drive on this machine and the CD-ROM will shortly be going somewhere else. No connection from this box to the internet either. Can't find a single thing wrong with the SuSE 7.1 installation. Shadow passwords are working as is everything else. Thanks -- Richard