thanks Martin did a search in the registry but didn't find anything Arggggg this is really pissing me off. On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 14:57 Europe/Rome, Martin Portman wrote: > there's a flag in window's registry that is called > 'EnabledPlainTextPassword' or similar. it's off by default. i had to > set it to be able to log into unix boxes. maybe you need to do this > to share/find printers. > > run 'regedit32' from the start->run box. i've had a quick look for > the key name, the above is the best i can come up with. > > years ago this was. things may have changed since then. > > martin.