There have been a number of messages regarding difficulties in using Samba to mount Windows shares. I am finally able to mount shares from the Windows 2003 server in our office, although I am using CIFS and not SMBFS. I will explain my situation in case it is helpful to those trying to access Windows shares. I am running SuSE 9.1 Pro with all the YOU updates applied. Although i don't think it is relevant, I have installed the Samba client 3.04 and libsmbclient 3.04 from the apt repository. Our office has a Windows 2003 Small Business Server. I have been able to access the server fine using vmware. I couldn't mount the shares using Linux. My linux machine is called maclinux. Let's assume the following; domain name is DOMAINNAME username is LINUXUSER share name is SHARENAME. ip address of Windows server is 192.168.1.1 Windows server name is WINSERVER my uid is 1500 users gid is 200 using the Samba client in Yast, I was able to add maclinux to the windows domain, DOMAINNAME. using the Network browsing icon on the desktop would fail as many people have reported. smb://192.168.1.1/SHARENAME did work and did allow me to access the files on SHARENAME. ThE command smbclient -L WINSERVER would list all the shares on WINSERVER. Numerous incantations of smbmount and mount -t smbfs all failed however. i was receiving error messages that "SMB signing is mandatory and we have disabled it" Googling on SMB signing led me to info that CIFS is included in the 2.6 kernel and can be used to access Windows shares. I now use the following command to mount Windows shares mount -t cifs -o user=LINUXUSER,domain=DOMAINNAME,uid=1500,gid=200,rw //192.168.1.1/SHARENAME /home/LINUXUSER/mnt/WinServer/SHARENAME the command is all on one line. Hope that helps someone. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502