I installed Tera Term Pro on the PC and managed to TelNet to the server
Good - sounds like your basic networking is ok now.
I fiddled round with smb.conf directly and managed to get a share appearing in Networkwork neighbo(u)rhood but it doesn't seem to like my passwords...?!!!
Well, may be time to delve into the Samba books One aside, the Windows machines would typically install windows networking (SMB) onto NetBeui *and* TCP/IP as the underlying protocols. Samba only supports TCP/IP. It is possible to remove NetBeui on *all* Windows machines and the server - and just have one network protocol running on your network - ie all machines just talking IP. I am not advising this though - unless you know that you have no machines that only talk NetBeui (ie not IP) - and that all machines are configured for IP. It is something else to think about though as life can often be simpler if you only have one network protocol on your system. This is not an important point though - and if everything is working, then 'ain't broke, don't fix' probably applies ... :-) Just thought I would mention it. (even Win 3.11 can run with networking just using IP - it is not the default, and you need the Win 3.11 IP stack from MS - but on a smaller machine, cutting down to a single network protocol can save (some) resources. This is what I do at home) Kevin.