ok here is my smb.conf file.. its basically the default for RH8 with a few additions like writable = yes for users to be able to write to their directories and such.. this .conf file works fine in XP, its just Windows Millennium I am having problems with.. Windows Me keeps prompting for a password at: //TopGun/:IPC$ TopGun is my netbiosname.. I have no clue what IPC$ is, encrypt passwords =yes but I am going to try that windows 98 hack (should work for windows Me as well I hope) to see if that fixes the problem.. I sure hope so.. samba in my case, is being used with my apache 2.0 webserver so that local users on the LAN can upload their websites to their webpage without having to use FTP.. my website is at: http://www.tcoburn.com and each of my users have a website as tcoburn.org/~username. I just want this to work so my users can upload their websites to their /home/username/public_html directories rather they are using WIndows Me, or Windows XP.... thats all I'm trying to do.. I am using a Linksys router using DHCP and I have a static IP that tcoburn.com points to. all this works fine in XP with this smb.conf file, just windows Me I'm having a problem with.... smbpasswd users and passwords are created and work fine in XP..