Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> Take a look in the /var/log/samba/ logs... I don't have Samba installed, >> but IIRC it has an error log in there. >> > I didn't see anything specifically named IIRC in the /var/log/samba IIRC == "If I Recall Correctly". I guess the closest thing you mention is the client log, watch that with tail -f while you try to connect from that client. Also tail -f /var/log/messages. I see there is a system-config-samba package you can try, I would give that a go too. -Andy