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...rver\<username> and get their real homedir from the UNIX fileserver. I understand that the default for win 9x is to send the workgroup name i.e. <workgroup>\<username> There are reasons why I cannot change the workgroup name of these machines. Windows 2000 / xp seem to send <netbiosmachinename>\<username> when they or not domain members, when domain members they send <domainname>\<username> and this is the working case. Any help/suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Gary

Hi, we are using samba 2.0.7. on our HP file-server. For the NT users everything is ok, but we are not able to setup WIN95/98 computers to use the shares. All computers are within the same domain. Shares of NT-pc can be used and also shares from other linux boxe, but NOT from the HP. The global section is the same on the linux and HP machines. Any idea ? How can we check what is going wrong ? A