James By default samba uses plaintext passwords. The newer flavours of Win (and NT) encrypt their passwords resulting in what your experiencing (I too was caught out..for many fruitless hours!) There are solutions You can hack the Win registry (on every machine that is to access samba) so that it uses plaintext passwords or you can amend samba config to use encryption. This involves creating and populating a smbpasswd file(separate to the normal passwd file) Have you allowed the SWAT service on port 901 in your services file. It was not enabled by default on my system (SuSE 6.3) Hope this is some help Mike Rees Mike Rees Systems Manager Ysgol Glanymor School Heol Elfed Burry Port Llanelli SA16 0AL Tel 01554 832507 Fax 01554 832424 mike@glanymor.carms.sch.uk