Ok, I bought the book, read the Samba web pages, and tried several things over the past 8 months. On the Unix side (FreeBSD) I tested Samba using the 10-step process I obtained at a web-site and everything tests ok - I can log into Samba using any of the accounts I setup and everything works great. On the Win98 side, I can even use the Unix printer services just like I'm supposed to, but whenever I log in to try to map the home directories the Samba log says I'm logging in as "guest" rather than the user login I'm actually using and the service is denied. I've used regedit to set the Win98 to not encrypt passwords. I'm also not using an NT server to act as a PDC (this setup is at home, so I'm not too concerned about security). How do I get Samba to recognize a valid user ID from the Win98 side? Is there something else on Win98 that needs to be configured? _______________________________________________________ Dennis L. McCurdy (dennis.mccurdy@hboc.com) McKesson/HBOC Advanced Laboratory Group