Janus, I have Suse 9.0 professional installed on my laptop and have a windows network running at home. You can access your shares by just opening your home directory on your suse desktop and typing something along the lines of smb://<servername>/<sharename>. In previous versions this has never worked so I was pleasently surprised when I tried it and it worked fine this time around. Authentication is still something I havn't licked yet since everytime you connect to a share it prompts you for a username and password. Course you can write a little shell script like I did in previous version to use the mount command to mount the smb shares to directories. I can't remember the exact syntax at the moment. I believe it's something along the lines of mount -t smbfs -o username=<username> password=<password> then server and mount point. As of this morning I couldn't remembe the correct syntax for the server and mount point but I bet if you go searching you could find it. Also I'm sure you know that Ximan (or is it Novell now) Evolution boasts good connectivity to Exchange Servers with their Exchange Connector). Myself I've grown to prefer web access for email and groupware since it doesn't require clients. Hope this helps Aric Wilisch -----Original Message----- From: Janus Sandsgaard [mailto:jas@Tekno.dk] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 7:01 AM To: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: [SLE] SuSE 9.0 Personal and Exchange 5.5 At my work we want to try out SuSE Linux on my dekstop PC to se how well it fits into our existing Windows-network - and I am sitting here with "SuSE Linux 9.0 Personal" in my hand. All clients runs Windows2000 and the server is Exchange 5.5. All I need is Linux, KDE and OpenOffice.org and a typically Office-setup - and then of cource access to the network as the rest of my collegues. Question: How do I use mail and access (read/write) files on our Windows-shares (Exchange) using SuSE Linux 9.0 Personal? Is it a problem that the Exchange Server uses NTFS? Janus Janus Sandsgaard Projektmedarbejder / Project assistant Teknologirådet / The Danish Board of Technology http://www.tekno.dk -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com