I thought I had this configured correctly, but it stopped working when I rebooted the other day. I looked through the archives and tried all the stuff that looked relevent, but to no avail. I have a redhat 6.0 server running samba-2.0.3, and a bunch of windows98 clients. I'm trying to serve a shared directory with basicly /tmp permissions and my printers. my server, Biz, shows up in the client lists, but I'm unable to actually access it. windows 98 clients say "\\Biz is not accessible" dos net view biz says "error 59: an unexpected network error has occured" smbclient from linux says: Added interface ip=192.168.0.0 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Added interface ip=127.0.0.0 bcast=127.0.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: Domain=[EMODE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.3] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- emode Disk Emode files printers Printer All Printers IPC$ IPC IPC Service (MIS server) lp Printer Server Comment --------- ------- BIZ MIS server TESTING Mark's Laptop Workgroup Master --------- ------- EMODE TESTING MYGROUP MAIL any ideas? I have a feeling I've got a setting wrong, but I don't know which. sorry to bother you all. seph testparm outputs: Load smb config files from /etc/smb.conf Processing section "[emode]" Processing section "[printers]" Loaded services file OK. Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions # Global parameters workgroup = EMODE netbios name = BIZ netbios aliases = server string = MIS server interfaces = 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.0/24 bind interfaces only = No security = SHARE encrypt passwords = No update encrypted = No use rhosts = No min passwd length = 5 map to guest = Never null passwords = No password server = smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd hosts equiv = root directory = / passwd program = /bin/passwd passwd chat = *old*password* %o\n *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\ n *changed* passwd chat debug = No username map = password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = No log level = 2 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 500 timestamp logs = Yes protocol = NT1 read bmpx = Yes read raw = Yes write raw = Yes nt smb support = Yes nt pipe support = Yes nt acl support = No announce version = 4.2 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 65535 name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast max packet = 65535 max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No change notify timeout = 60 deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 10 max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 read prediction = No read size = 16384 shared mem size = 1048576 socket options = TCP_NODELAY stat cache size = 50 load printers = Yes printcap name = /etc/printcap printer driver file = /etc/printers.def strip dot = No character set = mangled stack = 50 coding system = client code page = 850 stat cache = Yes domain groups = domain admin group = domain guest group = domain admin users = domain guest users = machine password timeout = 604800 add user script = delete user script = logon script = logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive = logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = No os level = 0 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = No local master = Yes domain master = Yes browse list = Yes dns proxy = Yes wins proxy = No wins server = wins support = No kernel oplocks = Yes ole locking compatibility = Yes smbrun = /usr/bin/smbrun config file = preload = lock dir = /var/lock/samba default service = message command = dfree command = valid chars = remote announce = 192.168.0.255 remote browse sync = socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map = time offset = 0 unix realname = No NIS homedir = No panic action = comment = path = alternate permissions = No revalidate = No username = guest account = nobody invalid users = valid users = admin users = read list = write list = force user = force group = read only = Yes create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow = 192.168.0. 207.106.88. 127. hosts deny = status = Yes max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict sync = No sync always = No print ok = No postscript = No printing = sysv print command = lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = lpq -P%p lprm command = lprm -P%p %j lppause command = lp -i %p-%j -H hold lpresume command = lp -i %p-%j -H resume queuepause command = lpc stop %p queueresume command = lpc start %p printer name = printer driver = NULL printer driver location = default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangle case = No mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes delete veto files = No veto files = hide files = veto oplock files = map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes mangled names = Yes mangled map = browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes strict locking = No share modes = Yes copy = include = exec = postexec = root preexec = root postexec = available = Yes volume = fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes dont descend = magic script = magic output = delete readonly = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No [emode] comment = Emode files path = /emode/export read only = No guest only = Yes guest ok = Yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba guest ok = Yes print ok = Yes