My samba box is working perfectly as planned, i have 2 shares one with public acess, no username no password.. and that is working.. my problem is my "admin" share.. with is actually one directory above the public share, that i want read/write access to by anyone that knows the password. i've read everything i can find, share-level security was definately the best choice.. but my admin share wont let anyone in.. it pops up a login box with /NAMEOCOMP/Guest greyed out in the username field.. and no matter what password we try it isnt working.. heres my smb.conf ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: #======================= Global Settings ====================== [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP # netbios name = netbios name %h server string security = share hosts allow = 192.168.2. guest account = public invalid users = root socket options = TCP_NODELAY username map = /etc/samba/users.txt #======================= Share Definitions ======================[Andies] path = /data/ username = god only user = yes [data] read only = no force user = public guest ok = yes path = /data/public ::::::::::::::::: my users.txt looks like: public = * god = bob, andy, tim thanx in advance Andy _________________________________________________________________ Share your latest news with your friends with the Windows Live Spaces friends module. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mk