Thanks for the reply Mike,

Look for the keyword START_SMB Change no to yes.

I have already done that.

smbd -D nmbd -D

these seem to execute ok, which I assume from the fact that they dont report errors Another book i'm looking at is Red Hat Linux Network Toolkit. According to that (p73), to check that the daemons are running, ps x | grep mbd should produce output which references both smbd and nmbd. When I run it, I get only a single reference to smbd. Is nmbd really running? How can I check? regards Richard richard@tortoise.demon.co.uk