Hi all I am a novice user & I have just switched over to Suse10.1 from Slackware10.2 (been running Slackware since Slackware9.1) I have 4 PC connected to a home LAN. 1 running Linux, & others are running WinXP 1) I have (somewhat) setup samba using Yast, but the thing is, if the firewall turned off, then I am able to access the LAN from my Suse box, otherwise it says "Unable to find any workgroups in your local network. This might be caused by an enabled firewall." But as far as I can recall there was an option during samba configuration to "Open Firewall ports"... which I did... so what could be going wrong?? The XP boxes are able to access my samba server without any problem though. I am also pasting my /etc/samba/smb.conf Thanks in advance :-) Emon # smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented # version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the # samba-doc package is installed. # Date: 2006-05-02 [global] workgroup = LANLINK bind interfaces only = true interfaces = eth0 192.170.0.1 hosts allow = 192.170.0.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1 log level = 1 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1024 printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw map to guest = Bad User include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$ domain logons = No domain master = No netbios name = magicbox security = user [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S, %D%w%S browseable = No read only = No inherit acls = Yes [profiles] comment = Network Profiles Service path = %H read only = No store dos attributes = Yes create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 [users] comment = All users path = /home read only = No inherit acls = Yes veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/ [groups] comment = All groups path = /home/groups read only = No inherit acls = Yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/tmp printable = Yes create mask = 0600 browseable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers write list = @ntadmin root force group = ntadmin create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 [share] inherit acls = Yes path = /media/hd/MAGICSTORE/share/ read only = No create mask = 0775 browseable = Yes public = yes