Hi everybody! I'm an absolute Linux newbie and I've got some problems with my LAN. I've got two machines at home. On the one machine is Win98/SuSE Linux 6.1 and on the other is Win NT4 SP3. My network from Win98 to Win NT is perfect. Both machines have the function of a file server, that means that I can use the Win NT harddisk from the Win98 machine and the other way round. No problems. Now I decided to test Linux and I want the same network functions like under windows. So I installed Linux parallel to Win98. This was no problem, too. Then I installed Samba 2.0.3 and tried to configure the smb.conf. There the problems begins... In Linux I created two users: my father and me (my father normaly use the NT machine). My first aim is that the Linux machine becomes a file server so that my father can use my harddisk. When I log in to Win NT with the same user name I created under Linux, I can browse to the users home directory. This is all right. But I don't have any write access. Here's my smb.conf (without any comments): Most of the lines were created automatically by the setup program. [global] workgroup = privat guest account = nobody keep alive = 30 os level = 2 public = yes security = share printing = bsd printcap = /etc/printcap load printers = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY map to guest = Bad User interfaces = 192.168.0.1/255.255.255 {comment: 192.168.0.1 Linux machine 192.168.0.2 = NT machine} wins support = yes [homes] comment = Heimatverzeichnis browseable = yes read only = no writeable = yes create mode = 0750 [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = yes printable = yes public = no read only = no create mode = 0700 directory = /tmp Another question: If I delete the line "public = yes" in the global-section I haven't got any access from the NT machine to the home directory. It appears a dialog box where I had to log in with a user name and a password. If I try to log in with the same user name like I created under Linux it appears an error message of the form: "You can't log in from this machine". Can you explain this to me ? My second problem is that I don't see the Linux machine in the NT network neighborhood. I configured samba as a WINS Server and specify the Linux machine's IP-address on the NT machine, but it doesn't work. What have I done wrong ? Please give me step by step instructions (in easy English, because I'm German) how I get full write access and how I can see the Linux machine in the network neighborhood. Thank you very much See you later Andi -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed