I think I have the same problem, and connecting with smbclient with debug on results in this answer (feisty has only share level security): This is a (failed) connection FROM an Edgy machine TO Feisty share: martin@minivanes:~$ smbclient -d 3 //feisty/samba lp_load: refreshing parameters Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf" Processing section "[global]" added interface ip=192.168.1.73 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Client started (version 3.0.22). resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name feisty<0x20> resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name feisty<0x20> resolve_wins: WINS server resolution selected and no WINS servers listed. resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name feisty<0x20> name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for name feisty<0x20> Got a positive name query response from 192.168.1.22 ( 192.168.1.22 ) Connecting to 192.168.1.22 at port 445 Password: Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.24] resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name feisty<0x20> resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name feisty<0x20> resolve_wins: WINS server resolution selected and no WINS servers listed. resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name feisty<0x20> name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for name feisty<0x20> Got a positive name query response from 192.168.1.22 ( 192.168.1.22 ) Connecting to 192.168.1.22 at port 445 dos_clean_name [] convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(��_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(�_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(▒_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(��_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(�_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(▒_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(��_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(�_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(▒_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence) resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name ���_<0x20> resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name ���_<0x20> resolve_wins: WINS server resolution selected and no WINS servers listed. resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name ���_<0x20> name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for name ���_<0x20> convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(��_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(�_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(▒_) convert_string_allocate: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(���_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(��_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(�_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence(▒_) convert_string_internal: Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence) Connection to ���_ failed Feisty configuration is completely default, with 1 added share samba pointing to directory /samba, allowing only guest connections)