Hello list (Objective is to run a nightly backup script for my partners XP Home machine personal files under "Documents and Settings".) This is more a need for confirmation (I hope) than a true Q. Not too familiar with Windoze since 2000, so: From these links: http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2004-March/000126.html http://lowendmac.com/lowendpc/box/2002/0916.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307040 Where "root" is an "administrator" user and HOME is the "Documents and Settings" directory, it seems that the problems I'm having using this command to login and access a user account directory (under "Documents and Settings") on my partners XP Home, are... XP Home? /mount -t cifs //192.168.1.20/HOME /mnt/cifs -o user=root,password=root And, the problems I'm having using this command to shutdown my partners XP Home, are... XP Home? net rpc shutdown -I 192.168.1.20 -U root%root Can anyone confirm, if I replace XP Home with XP Pro (all things being equal) these commands are the right ones to do what I want: mount a cifs share that is a user account directory and shutdown the XP machine? (I just don't want to disrupt my partner for no good reason...) Thanks, M. -- Morgan Read NEW ZEALAND <mailto:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz> fedora: Freedom Forever! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview "By choosing not to ship any proprietary or binary drivers, Fedora does differ from other distributions. ..." Quote: Max Spevik http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/17/177220 RMS on Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis/FSF -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 338 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20070309/6002a174/signature.bin