I finally got access to the share on my linux box (debian 2.2 r3 running samba 2.0.7), on my win2k box, but it appears I can only read files. I'm accessing linux with the proper username/password and all the files/dirs in the share are owned by that user so I can't figure it out. Also, I can only see the box when the security is at SHARE level - which ain't the best. For some reason i simply cannot access the box from win2k when samba is set to USER level security. any help is appreciated! cheers, rory