Hi ! During the installation process of Windows 2000 professionnal anyone can connect to the ADMIN$ share as ADMINISTRATOR whithout any password. Verification : % ./smbclient \\\\WINDOZE\\ADMIN$ -I xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt -U 'administrator' -d 0 -N Unable to open configuration file "/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf"! pm_process retuned false Can't load /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf - run testparm to debug it Domain=[GROAR] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] smb: \> Regards, Stephane PS : smbclient is a part of SAMBA (http://www.samba.org/). -- Stephane AUBERT -=- Herve Schauer Consultants Stephane.Aubert@hsc.fr http://www.hsc.fr/