Samba is merely participating in the WORKGROUP domain. When the Win98 machine is logged on as the equivalent user in the Samba smbpasswd file, smtp e-mail through Outlook prompts for a username/password and does not connect to the netwrk mail server. This seems to me to be a newbie question, but alas, I cannot find an article covering that topic. Any comments on this are welcome. What does Outlook smtp e-mail have to do with a local file sharing setup anyway? Befuddled. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com