In testing I have the following setup with 172.16.x.x IP numbers Win2K server Linux machine running samba Win 98 laptop client These are aggregated on a switch which is connected to another linux box running IPCHAINS/MASON for connectivity to the 'outside' world and another samba server on a 'real IP' number. Ok, my first question - I can force the WIN2K to find the inside and outside samba server.If I try to open a share (the icon for the machines are there) it says "\\server not accessible" and "The account is not authorized to log in from this station". I am happy to post my smb.conf but thought I would try first to see if there is a more 'generic' problem between Win2K server and samba that I need to look at first. Host/deny is all ok for the IP number of the WIN2K box. My samba server is setup security=share, plaintext passwords are currently enabled, and the only other thing that I'm not sure about is that the WIN2K server was setup by the vendor as being in DOMAIN LANVPRNET whereas my samba servers are setup as WORKGROUP AV100. I tried changing the 'inside' samba server to workgroup=LANVPRNET but that didn't work either (I waited about a half hour to try it). I'm stumped... Thanks in advance, Rich Parker Director of Engineering Vermont Public Radio