Guys, I'm pretty good at Linux, but only a user on Windows 2K. I have set up Samba 2.2.2 on Red Hat 7.2 and all the local smb commands seem fine. But I can't get even the simplest commands from a Window's system, e.g., net view \\linux_samba_server to work. I always see: System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied. I know this has something to do with authentication. All I want to do is be able to import my home directory. On my PC, I log in as user "ric". On my Linux system, my account name is "ric". This is a portion of my smb.conf file: [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes path = /home/%S I would really appreciate it if someone would take pity on me and send a brief note (to ricst@usa.net, or post to the list, but CC me) explaining what to do. Many thanks. Ric Steinberger Security Consultant ricst@usa.net 650.856.2067 Mobile: 650.302.4322