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On 19/04/13 18:09, Kevin Lucas wrote: > > Fortune smiles in the shape of 2 Win Xp machines on the NW > And therein lies your problem - XP has a much earlier SMB protocol level and they also like WINS and NETBIOS, which has been deprecated as far as reasonably possible in modern MS platforms. Modern SMB/Samba is all about Kerberos, LDAP and DNS and your Fedora 18/Samba4 setup will be defaulting to the newer versions. You're going to have to manually lock everything - win and linux - to the correct levels. Obviously I don't know how your network is setup but modern SMB/Samba is also happier running in security=domain mode with all of the attendant complexities and advantages: security=share/user for the simpler workgroup/homegroup model (which I guess is what you're using) is theoretically less complex but I can honestly say I have never even looked at it, and nor do I know anyone else who has even bothered trying to set it up. Surely you want a centralized box running AD if you've got more than a couple of machines anyway, whether it's a Samba4 one or an actual MS server instance? Either way, I don't envy you as I think that's seriously going to be difficult to setup properly. You're going to be upgrading or replacing those crappy old XP boxes within the year anyway so I'd just bite the bullet and deploy a 'proper' AD server, on Samba4 if necessary and you can immediately switch the entire network up a SMB version or two. There are some hideous and unfixable issues with weak NTLM on clients as old as XP, and microsoft, probably completely fairly, don't have any interest in patching up that old crap when even Vista has good support and win7/8 have full support. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq