yet more from my samba saga. Making the change from security=share to security=user has resulted in my aforementioned login prompt box from Windows. I noted, while doing a 'service smb restart', that this turns up in /var/log/messages: Mar 26 14:28:29 backup nmbd[7989]: [2008/03/26 14:28:29, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:terminate(58) Mar 26 14:28:29 backup nmbd[7989]: Got SIGTERM: going down... Any thoughts? Google turned up a slew of stuff, but all of it was unfamiliar. TIA -Ray