From: Noob Centos Admin <centos.admin at gmail.com> > 8. tail -f samba logs but nothing happens, it's like samba never see > the incoming request. Note that it doesn't log anything with smbclient > -L either. Did you try to raise the log level (log level = 3)? > I'm almost certain now that samba coder snuck in a devious randomizer > that requires every single installation to only work after an random > sequence of actions is taken. :( But I feel your pain... I cannot count how many days I lost on Samba+Windows issues... Last one (not sure yet) was on Windows side: apparently, the nvidia service preventing profiles to be saved on logout... It is a 2007 issue and apparently it still exists! JD