First, thanks in advance if anyone answers. Please send a copy to my email address as I do not frequent this list. However, I have a problem I cannot solve and request some smart persons help. I have a Debian Linux on a laptop (ROCKS!!) and a desktop running Win98 connected via coax ethernet. I can configure the Win98 desktop to see the "linux" share on the laptop. I cannot get the Debian Linux on the laptop to see the shares on the desktop. I read the info man page and the DIAGNOSIS.txt from the Samba docs. My setup passes the DIAGNOSIS.txt procedure but still does not work. I set the clear text password on the registry on the Win98 desktop. When I am at the laptop and type smbclient \\desktop\c -I 44.71.63.75 -U andrew the samba responds with Unspecified error 0x8f Your server software is being unfriendly. I looked on Dejanews for this error and didnt find (or understand) anything relevant. Please help, I am stuck!! Oh yeah, on the desktop Win 98, TCP/IP is the only protocol with the PCI e-net adaptor and the dialup network adaptor. I have MS network client and printer and file sharing enabled. The "I want to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" is checked but greyed out. I cannot seem to resolve that mystery either. I am fairly certain that the trouble lay on the Win98 side. TIA Andrew Lynch lynchaj@yahoo.com PS, the same lan works OK with the laptop running Win98 and the desktop running Win98, so I have pretty much ruled out a hardware problem. Both sides can "ping" each other under any configuration. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com