Bill Antonia Beacon Community College Home e-mail bill@beaconhillcott.freeserve.co.uk Work e-mail at@beacon.e-sussex.sch.uk [Note: any "file:" bits attached in the smbmount commands should be ignored when typing in the command, they get appended by Outlook Express automatically! Pain! I keep trying to delete them. I would use a Linux email client on my dual boot machine if I could only get my PCI modem to work with Linux.] You can connect to a samba share as if it were a local directory, even if it is on the same machine. Use smbmount to do this eg smbmount file://servername/sharename /mountpoint This assumes you are going to log on using the user name and password you used to log onto your Linux machine. However this may not be very useful as you have to be connected as root to create a mount point. Follow the smbmount command with any options you may require eg smbmount file://servername/sharename /mountpoint -U username To log onto the share as a different user, you will be prompted for a password. Otherwise use smbmount file://servername/sharename /mountpoint -U username%password if you are not concerned about exposing your password. The mountpoint has to be an already existing directory, if there is somthing already in the directory, then it gets hidden but not destroyed. To disconnect from the share use umount /mountpoint There are lots of other options, check using man smbmount Bye for now Bill