I'm interested in setting up either a dual boot or Windows xserver suite, and want to provide access to the usual network shares which are on a Linux server running Samba. From what I've read NFS seems the way to go rather than using a Linux Samba client, but what I'm not clear about is the easy way to provide my users with access to just their shares, rather than whole sections of the directory tree. The smb.conf at present has shares set like this: [home] comment = Home Directories path = /export/user/%g/%u read only = No [hidden] comment = user's LINUX filespace path = /home/%g/%u read only = No [group] comment = Group's server file space path = /export/groups/%g read only = No [all] comment = Common files path = /export/all/ read only = No My question is really how do I get the %g and %u (groupid and userid) stuff and automounting in NFS, without having to write lots of separate scripts for each user. Any help would be much appreciated. BTW, Thank you to the many of you who got in touch about my 19 station LTSP idea, the governors have put this one on hold for at least 12 months, pending building work which will necessitate the use of the room I had in mind as a temporary music room. Ah well, maybe next year. -- Miles Berry Deputy Head St Ives School Haslemere www.stiveshaslemere.com