First time samberer :) I have a home network, samba server running on kubuntu, wifes system running kubuntu and company laptop running XP. To start with I want to just share files. I can read files in shares from my wifes system but no matter what I do I cannot add files to the mounted share. I get 'cannot create regular file .... no such file or directory', even though the mounted directory exists and I can read files from it. I am stuck. Any idea what I am doing wrong ? Also is there a way to restrict my laptop XP to just the windows share. It seems that having a user and password for the samba server enables access to all shares on the server. The two possibilities I can see are either using a lot of variables in smb.conf or generating multiple instances of samba ? Many thanks in advance Dave Samba server ............... smb.conf [global] #comments = Samba Server workgroup = OFFICE wins support = yes #oplocks = no [linux] path = /usr/local/share/samba/linux read only = no #guest ok = yes [windows] path = /usr/local/share/samba/windows read only = no #gest ok = yes [archive] path = /usr/local/share/samba/archive read only = no #gest ok = yes wifes system ......... fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/fat32 vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/archive ext3 rw,nosuid,noexec 0 0 //dave-comp/linux /mnt/samba/linux smbfs credentials=/root/.smbpw,uid=vanda,gid=vanda,fmask=777,dmask=777,rw 0 0 //dave-comp/windows /mnt/samba/windows smbfs credentials=/root/.smbpw,uid=vanda,gid=vanda,fmask=777,dmask=777,rw 0 0 //dave-comp/archive /mnt/samba/archive smbfs credentials=/root/.smbpw,uid=vanda,gid=vanda,fmask=700,dmask=700,rw 0 0