I have a mixed environment with: -Windows 2000 Server as a file server, dns server, & domain controller -Linux Server running FC1 that is a backup to the W2K server -four Windows clients -a new Linux client running FC4 (kudos to my 17-year-old daughter for being the guinea pig.) I'd love to be all Linux one day, but currently I have very little time to tinker with it. The server running FC1 has been so stable that I just haven't had to touch it, and thus have forgotten much. I have done a fair amount of Googling, checked the man pages, and have changed smb.conf and the other Samba files a hundred different ways. I'm ready for some help now as time is an issue for me. Everything works great on my FC1 box - it can access Windows and Windows can access it. My problem lies with the FC4 client. All the other computers can see the FC4 box and access it's shares, so I know Samba is working to some degree. The FC4 box can see the other computer icons in the Network window, but when trying to access any of them, the following message appears: "The folder contents could not be displayed." "Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of 'Windows Network: [computername]'." My guess is that the problem resides with a permissions issue on the Windows side, but I'm not sure. It's probably something simple that I knew at one time when configuring my FC1 box. Could it be a problem that I'm running one version of Samba on the FC1 box and another version on the FC4 box? Below are the contents of my Samba files. I'm sure some of them are not set to give me the best security, so any suggestions would be welcomed. /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log load printers = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 hosts equiv = /etc/hosts.allow hostname lookups = yes force directory mode = 755 winbind trusted domains only = no encrypt passwords = yes passwd program = /etc/samba/smbpasswd dns proxy = no preferredmaster = no netbios name = kelsey server string = Kelsey's PC winbind enum users = no default = global force create mode = 755 workgroup = LINK winbind enum groups = no os level = 33 printcap name = /etc/printcap security = user preferred master = no max log size = 50 <snip> /etc/samba/smbusers # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ... root=administrator root=dad root=mom root=kelsey root=kyler nobody = guest pcguest smbguest /etc/hosts.allow # # hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. # 192.168.1.25 laptop 192.168.1.90 kyler 192.168.1.102 downstairs 192.168.1.103 upstairs 192.168.1.166 server 192.168.1.177 howard Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks. mailto://tim dot link at mchsi dot com