Fellow Samba-lovers: I'm having an interesting problem getting Samba 2.0.5 and Windows ME to work. I have had no problem getting this version of Samba to work with my Windows 9x, NT4.0 and 2k Pro boxen, but for some reason WinME seems to be having issues. No, it's not the plain text password issue. I've got "encrypt passwords = Yes" in smb.conf and it seems to work just fine. <DESCRIPTION CLASS=PROBLEM> My problem is quite different. My WinME box is able to see my FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE shares and even look at the root directory of each share (e.g. Multimedia). However, when I try to descend past that level (e.g. Multimedia\images), WinME gives me the following error: "\\Anthony\Multimedia\images refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, on a network, or on a different computer on your home network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or the home network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location." No, the information has not been moved to a different location. This can be verified by the fact that my Win2k Pro box that is simultaneously connected to the LAN can see ~everything~ in my Samba shares. It can also see everything in my WinME shares (and vice-versa). The WinME box can do just about anything in that root directory: read a file, create a file and even create a directory. However, a warning message gets displayed when I create a directory: "You may not be able to access files created in the folder \\Anthony\Multimedia\images\New Folder. Proceed?" </DESCRIPTION> <RESOURCES> If you can help, please do! Below is my smb.conf. If you need any additional resources, please let me know! [global] netbios name = ANTHONY server string = Samba %v interfaces = 192.168.1.1 bind interfaces only = Yes encrypt passwords = Yes username map = /usr/local/etc/smb.usermap log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY load printers = No dns proxy = No hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127. [homes] comment = Home Directory valid users = %S read only = No force create mode = 0600 force directory mode = 0700 case sensitive = Yes hide dot files = No browseable = No [Backup] comment = Archive path = /mnt/ccd0/arc force user = ccd0 force group = ccd0 read only = No create mask = 0666 directory mask = 0777 case sensitive = Yes [Multimedia] comment = Multimedia path = /mnt/ccd0/mm force user = ccd0 force group = ccd0 read only = No create mask = 0666 directory mask = 0777 case sensitive = Yes </RESOURCES> -- anthony@xmission.com