I've made a bunch of changes and adjustments, with the help of some list members, and I "almost" have samba working. Now, if I search for 192.168.0.6 (the dhcp address of the linux box) it shows up on my win2k machine. If I then doubleclick on 192.168.0.6, it brings up a bunch of folders, like public, nobody, homes, and home. The only one that I can access is public. But, I can only read files that I put into it. I cannot write to it. The other folders bring up messages that they are either not reachable, or I get a username and password window, but they bomb out when I fill them in. I am obviously close, but not there yet. Any ideas?? Also, it is still obvious that the windows machines cannot locate the linux box by name, although they can locate all of the win2k boxes by name. (IP addresses are being assigned by dhcp by a Maxgate ugate 3200 switch/router.) TIA, Ed