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...enough to answer my first question. I had some really weird errors and he told me to uninstall the samba that I had compiled on my own and reinstall the samba.tgz that came with slackware 7.1 which is what I am running. I did so, and the weird errors no longer occur. Instead when I try: root@vader82:/# smbclient -L localhost added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 error connecting to 127.0.0.1:139 (Connection refused) Connection to localhost failed Not good. He said it should work almost out of the box with only slight changes to smb.conf. I managed to get SW...

...ba/bin/smbd smbd netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd nmbd swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat I got most of that from a NHF from www.linuxnewbie.org When I try and access the share locally via: smbclient -L localhost I get this error: root@vader82:/etc# smbclient -L localhost added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe. session request to LOCALHOST failed (code 0) read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe. session request to *SM...