I have a small LAN: SuSE 7.2 with Samba 3.0 and a W2K box. What I can do: I can create shares from the W2K box that make files from the Linux box visible. I can also manually mount (using % smbmount ... ) from the command line as root. Here is where I run into problems. The only way I can mount a partition via smbmount is if I use the username=user%passwd option. If I attempt to setup a .smbpw file, I am prompted for the password of the user I am attempting to create the mountpoint for. For example: % smbmount //w2k_srv/fred /smb/fred -o "credentials=/root/.smbpw_fred,uid-fred,pid=fred,fmask=664,dmask=775" Password: Upon entring the password for user fred, the mount point is created and the file are accessible. The .smbpw_fred file looks like this: fred%passwd Likewise, if I attempt to edit the /etc/fstab entry with the following line: //w2k_srv/fred /smb/fred smbfs username=fred%passwd, uid=fred, gid=fred, fmask=664, dmask=775 0 0 I get an error that the fstab has an error at the line that references the samba mount point. Any ideas here? This is the last thing i need to get samba fully functional on my LAN. Everything else has been a piece of cake! Thank you in advance, Joe Cipale -- #----------------------------------------------------------# # Penguinix Consulting # #----------------------------------------------------------# # Software development, QA and testing. # # Linux support and training. # # "Don't fear the penguin!" # #----------------------------------------------------------# # Registered Linux user: #309247 http://counter.li.org # #----------------------------------------------------------#