HI, I installed samba (latest binary) on my ultra10/sol2.8 box. It runs good. The samba path was the user "data" home direcotry path that i created for user "data": [data] comment = data area path=/home/data valid user = data public=no writable = yes printable=no create mask=0777 I had to change the path=/home/data to path=/opt/otherdata due to different reasons. I still can map it on my pc but i see each new map creates each new smbd (ps -ef|grep smbd). is this natural?. can i do this?. Sam _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp