Okay, I got it to connect. Had a username issue in my user.map file. I had it set to: "shawnf = 1000" which is the uid# of my account on the linux box. Once I changed the second entry to equal my win98 login, I could connect. Now I get a permissions issue on my home directory. I can write a file there, but now when I go to either modify a file or read one, it say it "has either been deleted or renamed. Press F5 to refresh." I do, and still get the same error. The other share I can do what I want, I opened it up to 777. Thought I'd pass on the connect issue in case others ran into the same thing. Thanks for the help, Shawn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loren Burlingame" <theixian at hotmail.com> > This will only work in a windows NT, 2k, XP environment. > > you must either log onto the win98 box with the username of the user on the > linux box OR use the 'username map=/path/to/map' (at least I think that is > the correct syntax) directive in the smb.conf file to alias a the username > you log in as on the win98 box to a valid user account on the linux box. and > dont forget to run 'smbpasswd -a <username>'. >