Dear All, I have my Suse 8.2 distro setup with samba 2.28a and use webmin mostly for samba configuration. I have 3 computers networked using samba. I use a SpeedStream wireless/wired router which is directly wired into my Suse 8.2(samba server). My husband's computer is hooked up to the only printer(HP 940c deskjet) and has windows 98 SE . I , also, have a laptop that is wirelessly hooked up to this router. I can browse easily now through LinNeighborhood on my Suse 8.2, and I can see my linuxserver from windows 98 Network Neighborhood. I can browse and open the shared folders that are my husband's when I am using his win 98 computer, but whenever I try to open the linux computer from Network Neighborhood I get the IPC$ password box that does not accept any passwords. I have studied this for weeks and cannot get around it yet. I have share security setup and encrypted passwords. I did not want to change windows 98 to unencrypted but if that is the only way I will since this is only a home private network with 2 people using the computers-----certainly a trusted network. I believe this could be a permission problem or a password problem even though I did what I can to make sure all the passwords, users, etc are the same on both computers. I cannot figure this out. Here is my smb.conf which shows what a newbie I am at this I am sure. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much. Marcia # Global parameters [global] netbios name = LINUXSERVER security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes null passwords = Yes username map = /etc/samba/smbusers unix password sync = Yes log level = 1 syslog = 0 time server = Yes unix extensions = Yes socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY printcap name = CUPS os level = 62 preferred master = Yes local master = No domain master = Yes message command = /usr/bin/LinPopUp "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s guest account = pcguest valid users = root,marcia,marcialynn,kevin admin users = marcia,root,kevin read list = admin,root,marcia,kevin write list = admin,root,marcia,kevin printer admin = admin,marcia,kevin,root read only = No guest ok = Yes printing = cups veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0750 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/tmp create mask = 0770 printable = Yes printer name = draft browseable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers valid users = root,marcia,marcialynn,Kevin,kevin,@ntadmin write list = root,@ntadmin,kevin,marcia force group = ntadmin create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0775 [zip] path = /dev/sda4 [AllPhotos] path = /home/marcia/Desktop/AllPhotos [GoVIdeodvd] path = /home/marcia/Desktop/GoVIdeodvd create mask = 0770 force create mode = 0755 [Recipes] path = /home/marcia/Recipes [Recipes2] path = /home/marcia/mnt/LINUXSERVER/Recipes [GoVIdeodvd2] path = /home/marcia/mnt/LINUXSERVER/GoVIdeodvd valid users = root,marcia,marcialynn,kevin,admin,+lp,+public,+ntadmin,+users admin users = read list = write list = admin map system = Yes