On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:46 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > On 23/06/2009 10:39, Brett Serkez wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Kevin Thorpe<kevin at pibenchmark.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Yet I can still connect to the shares as kevin..... strange > >> > > > > As root try: > > > > # service smb reload > Curiouser and curiouser. That worked, I can't connect now. Why should > Samba cache the password file? > Seems a bit of a security problem to me. --- The samba Caching directory is in /var/cache/samba . Why should it Cache it? For quicker access. That is the way it is designed and I know of no security flaw in that. Just executing service smb reload will not disconnect a user. But using "restart" will dump all the users. John