On Monday 20 June 2005 10:09 pm, Jerome Lyles wrote: I can logon anonymously but I cannot logon using my username password. I know "Samba isable to respond on the loopback interface to a NULL connection": :~> smbclient -L localhost -U% Domain=[MYHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-4.1-SUSE] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- profiles Disk Network Profiles Service users Disk All users groups Disk All groups print$ Disk Printer Drivers shareddocs Disk IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.14a-4.1-SUSE) ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.14a-4.1-SUSE) Domain=[MYHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-4.1-SUSE] Server Comment --------- ------- LINUX Samba 3.0.14a-4.1-SUSE ORION Samba 3.0.13-1.1-SUSE Workgroup Master --------- ------- MYHOME LINUX I cannot verify that Samba correctly handles being passed a username and password: :~> smbclient -L server -Uroot%password Connection to server failed. When I try to login as a user I get: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE These commands are being run on the Samba server under 9.3. Is there a way to debug the authenticating process to discover where the process is failing? Any ideas on why 'smbclient -L server -Uroot%password' is failing? Thanks, Jerome