morning all ... I want to share a drive between two of my computers ... dont' want to deal with smbpasswd, so am just doing it as an open share with a host allow set to the computer that i want to share with ... smb.conf is setup nice and simple: [global] workgroup = MYGROUP server string = Samba Server hosts allow = 10.27.227.73 log file = /var/log/log.%m debug level = 3 max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY dns proxy = no default service = pub guest account = ftp [pub] path = /usr/local/pub public = yes guest ok = yes writeable = yes ================ When I try to map, it tells me "The account is not authorized to log in from this station" ... so I'm obviously missing somethign that tells it to allow guest access, no? Oh, in the map drive, there is an option for 'differentusername', which i changed to 'ftp' for this purpose ... Am lost, please advise? :( Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org