https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/samba-authentication/m-p/4605803#M40243 did you look at the samba logs /var/log/samba/* ?<BR /><BR />I believe the authentication type all depends on how you configured samba..<BR /><BR />man smb.conf for more details...<BR /><BR /><BR /> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:48:50 GMT Tim Nelson 2010-03-23T19:48:50Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/samba-authentication/m-p/4605802#M40242 I'm running a samba server on an RHEL box, and am connecting to it via XP - and there is some confusion as to which username and password is being passed to the RHEL box (is it passing the windows username/pw?) - - - is there anything other than something like Ethereal that will allow me to see the outgoing (or incoming) try's for authentication?????<BR /><BR /> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:36:55 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/samba-authentication/m-p/4605802#M40242 Dave Cast 2010-03-23T16:36:55Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/samba-authentication/m-p/4605803#M40243 did you look at the samba logs /var/log/samba/* ?<BR /><BR />I believe the authentication type all depends on how you configured samba..<BR /><BR />man smb.conf for more details...<BR /><BR /><BR /> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:48:50 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/samba-authentication/m-p/4605803#M40243 Tim Nelson 2010-03-23T19:48:50Z