On May 12, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Tim Holmes wrote: Good Morning Again Everyone: This seems to be my day for problems I am trying to access my File Server (FC2 Up2DATE running samba and authenticating against the domain) I am working from my XP station, and when I browse the local network to the box, I get an error message that states that I might not have permission to access the resource, (I do) and to contact my administrator (I am the admin), then it says that All Pipe Instances are busy. I have tried restarting samba and winbind, and also rebooting the box to clear any hung up stuff in the processor. Beyond that I am not sure where to go any suggestions are appreciated. I can post any configs etc that you need, just let me know which ones you want. Here is the smb.conf file #Trial SMB.conf file copied from the quick start guide #Modified to fit the needs of MCASCHOOL [global] workgroup = MCASCHOOL netbios name = SRVFS-01 server string = MCASCHOOL File Server security = DOMAIN winbind separator = \ winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes printcap name = cups disable spoolss = Yes show add printer wizard = No idmap uid = 15000-20000 idmap gid = 15000-20000 winbind use default domain = Yes use sendfile = Yes printing = cups [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No [Pictures] writeable = yes path = /share/pictures [isoimage] writeable = yes path = /share/isoimage [Ghost] writeable = yes path = /data/ghost_images Have you looked at http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch12.html. I always start with the DIAGNOSIS.txt that I picked up from the samba site ages ago [2005/05/12 11:14:23, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(312) check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [tholmes] -> [tholmes] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_PIPE_NOT_AVAILABLE [2005/05/12 11:14:23, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(608) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2005/05/12 11:14:23, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(608) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2005/05/12 11:14:23, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(312) check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [tholmes] -> [tholmes] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_PIPE_NOT_AVAILABLE [2005/05/12 11:14:23, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(571) Closing connections That particular sequence was repeated over and over for about a minute in the log files TIM