Just to add another little piece to the puzzle..if I do, directoryService.setAllowAnonymousAccess( true ); directoryService.setAccessControlEnabled( true ); in the code then the JBoss user authenticates just fine... Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: > Hello Emmanuel, > > I hope the logs reached you ok yesterday :-) was there anything useful > in them? > > Thanks, > > Yiannis > > Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: >> Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: >>> Yep that's right 1.3.0 >>> >>> I am not using server.xml as this is a very bare embedded >>> setup..should I be including it? >> If you didn't modified it, no. >> >> Btw, if you have some server logs, sned them too. >>