are you failing to authentication to the share that you're exporting? there are some issues with the authentication mechanisms that are used by NT 4.0 SP-foo and later where you either need to use a different password mechanism (a variant of digest iirc) or you need to tell the windows box to use a different format on the wire. this is in the faq. i've been using an older version of samba on than that with the samba authentication mechanisms and friends coming over with windows xp laptops seem to work fine. when last we saw our hero (Wednesday, Jun 19, 2002), Raymond Norton was madly tapping out: > I have been trying to get my Xp machine to work with samba on my RedHat > box, but to no avail. XP does Sees the shares on my NT machine just fine. > It would be nice if there was a quick fix, but it seems I need to upgrade > samba. (If I am wrong please correct me). > > I downloaded samba and tried to do a -U. This is what I get: > > [root at support admin]# rpm -U samba-2.2.4-2.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > samba = 2.0.10 is needed by samba-swat-2.0.10-2 > > > > I have forced -U --nodeps, but it will not install. > > > Any advice would be appreciated > > -- > Raymond Norton > Little Crow Telemedia Network > 320-234-0270 > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC