i'm tring to access the windows directories from my linux and tring this command smbmount //deepak/utilities /mnt/windows -o username = Deepak then i got the error like "Connection to deepak failed SMB connection failed" deepak is my windows 2000 host name utilities is the directory name which is shared from the windows machine /mnt/windows is the directory i creyted for mounting my windows directories on linux Deepak is the username on windows machine plz help me for this probs..where i'm wrong? why i'm not able to connect to windows machine. i also tried smbmount //deepak/utilities /mnt/windows -o password = "deepak" but same result :-( regards Deepak -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed