Hello List, A special thanks to Mr John Terpstra for helping me get back on the straight and narrow with an install of Samba 2.2.5 on RH8 . 1)I needed to remember the installation is linux centric, do the permission's based on linux ........ 2)I needed authorization to access the files, if you set " permission's to ''share", make "share" the viable choice in globals ...... 3)don't create smbpasswd as a directory <dooohhh> 4)smbpasswd -a <linux user> on the command line 5) don;t do an old version ! 6) read more........before starting a hasty fix,,, 7)make sure DNS is updated----- not necessarily for Samba I realize that 99% of you have done this successfully, and sorry to bend the bandwidth with redundancy. So drink a beer; Tiago, you drink a cerveza and all have a good day/night. Oh and someone should hire John, he really knows what he is doing. Adios, ciao, cheers, Regards-- Kevin McCarty CCNP CCNA #CSCO10448370 Computer Sciences Corporation Defense Sector "Obstacles are those annoying little bumps that occur when you take your eyes off your goals" Henry Ford