Ray Leventhal wrote: > >> 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 Partially solved: having used webmin to sync, I was trusting it. I changed my local password, then changed my password on the centos box, then changed my smbpasswd manually and I'm a little father down the path than I was Thank you all for the help thus far. I will continue to work on this and will (I'm certain) have additional questions :) -Ray