This may help some people I think alot of you people are not starting the nmbd demon, it is required to make the linuxmachine announce itself to the network. from my experience, samba will work fine, no matter if the dummydevice is enabled, if you are correctly logged on to your win (use TweakUI to log on automatically), and do manually specify the location of the share. In case, you dont know the win syntax, try, in a batch file, placed into /start/autorun, "net use * //server/share" this will automatically mount the smbshare on your linuxbox as the next available driveletter (on the win machine) nmbd only reads out some options from /etc/smb.conf and then announce itself on the network. nmbd is automatically started, if you set <start smb> to yes in /etc/rc.config, but the line starting it may have to be uncommented (i don't remember). Btw, this is also the correct place for mount shares onto the linuxbox. The syntax is "smbmount //server/share /mnt/share_mount" you may have to specify the ipaddress with the -I x.x.x.x parameter hope this reduces the number of sambaquesis on the list bye, alex -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/