TIA I can get samba sorta working. I made a directory on 9.3 called /zak and shared it as hard as I could and was able to copy stuff on to it from a WinXP machine without needing to login. This is part of my samba.conf ... [zak] path = /zak/ guest ok = yes read only = no valid users = admin users = case sensitive = yes msdfs proxy = no How do I secure it so it needs a password to gain access? Making it like that (above) was the only way way I could get access. SuSE is in LAN with a Novell 5.0 file server and no Windows domain controller. It isn't critical for me but I want to be able to do it in a Windows LAN without a domain controller for a client because I want to keep him away from Win 2003 SBS if I can. I have already said it would be better to use Linux than install a Windows domain controller. I gotta bigmouth. Mike