Hello everyone: I have tried both encrypt and unencrypt method but fails to connect from Win98 to samba server. Mainly there is a password issue haven't solved. There is a password problem when I list samba server resource without specifying user name i.e : smbclient -L ip_address session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.) Although I have tried mksmbpasswd.sh to create smbpassword in encrypt mode. Also when I use '' nmblookup -M linuxsamba " it returns: querying linuxsamba on 192.168.1.255 name_query failed to find name linuxsamba Thus would anyone tell me how can I solve this problem and recommend me a book about samba.Thanks