Hi there, I have been pulling out my hair for the past ten days and nights messing with samba which is quite new to me. I really wish someone out there can give me a hand so that i can get some sleep. Thank you. I have got the Samba Server installed correctly using the Red Hat Lnux 6.1 software package. All configuration required on the Windows 2000 side had been configured correctly. I had enclosed with my configuration of the smb.conf file below, hope it will be a reference to you to point out my mistake or errors. The host name and IP address of the Linux Box is DELL, 10.0.0.1 The two windows workstation are 10.0.0.11 and 10.0.0.12 I am using smb version 2.0.5 I have got the DELL network icon displayed in the windows explorer just that when i tried to click on the icon, an error box appear with the following messages disallowing me to browse, \\DELL\home\ is not accessible The network name cannot be found. Many thanks in advance. regards, miki #======================= Global Settings ====================================[global] workgroup = LINUX netbios name = DELL server string = Samba Server hosts allow = 10.0.0. printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes printing = bsd guest account = nobody log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user password level = 8 username level = 8 encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd unix password sync = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password*%n\n*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* username map = /etc/smbusers socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 interfaces = 10.0.0.1/24 remote announce = 10.0.0.255 local master = yes os level = 65 domain master = yes preferred master = yes domain logons = yes logon script = %m.bat logon script = %U.bat logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast wins support = yes dns proxy = no #============================ Share Definitions ============================= [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes writable = yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes [mac] comment = Mac Volume path = /usr/mac public = yes writable = yes printable = no [eME] comment = eMadeEasy Share path = /usr/eme public = yes writable = yes printable = no create mask = 0765 [pete] comment = Pete's Stuff path = /usr/pete valid users = pete public = no writable = yes printable = no [soo] comment = SooWeng's Stuff path = /usr/soo valid users = soo public = no writable = yes printable = no [ck] comment = ck's Personal WorkSpace path = /usr/ck valid users = ck public = no writable = yes printable = no [miki] comment = miki's Personal BathRoom (No Peeping!) path = /usr/miki valid users = miki public = no writable = yes printable = no -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed