I have been using SAMBA for a number of years and recently switched from slackware to FC6 which is running 3.0.23c-2. Since the switch I have been unable to share directories that are not on the root drive. For example I can create a directory /mnt/backup and share it, but if I mount /mnt/backup to a ext3 disk, then the share no longer works. This is a problem as my /home directory is on a second drive (ext3). smb.conf has the share defined as... [global] workgroup = DOGPACK server string = Samba Server username map = /etc/samba/smbusers log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 preferred master = Yes dns proxy = No cups options = raw [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /mnt/backup # mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw) #ls -l /mnt total 12 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 29 20:17 backup #mount -t cifs -o username=paul,password=mypasswd //192.168.1.3/tmp/ /mnt/test1 retrying with upper case share name mount error 6 = No such device or address Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) #umount /mnt/backup #ls -l /mnt total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 20 19:54 backup #mount -t cifs -o username=paul,password=mypasswd //192.168.1.3/tmp/ /mnt/test1 mounts ok The Samba logs show on the first failed attempt: [2006/11/29 21:49:31, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(911) '/mnt/backup' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [tmp] Error was Permission denied I suspect this problem is also preventing me from sharing the home dirs on /home (mounted as /hdb1 ext3) This configuration was working on my slackware server. I have a smbuser and smbpasswd file with 'paul' in it. Paul paul@golborne.com