Hi All, am wanting to set up samba so that it only listens on the VMWare interface. I set interfaces as below, interfaces = 192.168.178.1/24 but I still don't see my share from XP. I for a username/password. Do I need to create the account on the XP machine on the Linux machine? [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/marks public = yes writable = yes I turned off the firestarter firewall to eliminate it as the issue. path on XP is \\192.168.178.1 in an Explorer window. No firewall enabled on XP machine. Linux distro where the share is, is Ubuntu (Feisty). I can ping the VMware host from the guest XP, so connectivity is fine. Anyone here who can steer me in the right direction? Cheers. Mark Sargent -- "Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may not remember, involve me, and I'll understand." Native American Proverb