Hi John, > Ok, Ray and Anne Post me your Samba Version "rpm -q samba". Akemi has > helped me with my samba problems but I can't get nowhere when I put > "mode=user". Believe this or not I have never had this kind of problem > with samba. I want to be able to authenticate by the logged on client > machine, so it will automount the user share specified. I am really > thinking of Back Portting to a later version of samba in the version 3 > series. I even followed the How To Samba and used there user mode config > file and got nowhere. Is something wrong with the cifs protocol? This is > really agervatting. > > as requested: # rpm -q samba samba-3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4 -Ray