> DO the user credentials on the windows boxes match the credentials on > the samba box? > Did you turn off simple filesharing on the XP machines? in an effort to prove that at least my creds match, I dropped from root to my regular user status in shell and did smbpasswd this is what happened: Old SMB password: New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Could not connect to machine 127.0.0.1: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Failed to change password for ray