Hello Again, Forget the last message. Reading more of David Bannon's article, the MACHINE.SID sure does replace itself fast. Addtionally, one must not have the machine$ in the smbpasswd file. Regards, ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Lanny Baron FreeBSD Systems, Inc. Freedom Technologies Corp. 1.877.963.1900 http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM