Hi all, newbie here. searching through some doco from SWAT I couldn't find the answer to my question. You guys are my only hope. We (my boss, workmates and myself) are trying to set up a Linux backup server to centralise backups from Linux boxes, Windows and Macintosh boxes. We are running Dave on the macs, SuSE Linux and samba on the linux machines, Win95 and 2000 on the others. everything works luverly, EXCEPT one thing. Copying TOO the server from a linux machine. I can copy from the box. here's my setup, security = user user = matt guest = matt psword encrpt = no preferred master = yes. logged in to SuSE Linux 7.0 as 'root' but want to connect to file server as 'matt'. I only included info. that *I* think is helpful which is likely different to what *IS* helpful. I can copy FROM the file server to my machine. but I don't think my login is getting proper write access to the server. All macs and Windows boxes can write to there shares no problem. Only Linux to Linux or Samba to Samba fails. Thanks in advance. Matt --- here's my /etc/smb.conf for reference # Samba config file created using SWAT # from localhost (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2001/10/08 14:59:23 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = DSP netbios name = MATT interfaces = 10.5.0.28 bind interfaces only = Yes keepalive = 30 load printers = No preferred master = Yes local master = No socket address = 10.5.0.28 username = matt guest account = matt hosts allow = 10.5.0. [home] comment = my home directory path = /home/matt writeable = Yes guest ok = Yes [cdrom] comment = Matt's CDROM path = /cdrom guest ok = Yes [ 2001 ]