sir my name is sanil thomas and i am writing this mail from india. sir can i make a centralised file server in linux using smb as the protocoal the answer which i am looking forward is, there are up to 400-500 computers are being used by my firm so the computers are working under windows platform and i have to find a solution to control those windows share using linux ie. the linux server will be giving permission to the windows share. the linux server will decide who has got the permission to read or write or exceute or even see the share of another computer. could u plz help me out. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com