I had a similar problem with the XP Home version where I could access the Samba shares from XP, but attempts to read/write from linux to XP 'usually' didn't work. I finally gave up and moved all of my files over to the Linux box and life has been good ever since. I recently installed XP Pro here at work, and with one minor glitch, my Linux box and the XP box were able to mount each others file services right away. It turned out that I couldn't create a file share on XP using a domain account and get it to work reliably on the Linux box. It would mount fine, but most (not all) attempts to get a directory, create a file, read a file, etc. would generate a samba error. Creating a local account to own the directory being shared fixed the problem. If you're using the Home versions there are all sorts of gotcha's involved. The first thing that I found was that it generally doesn't like to share things and you have to find the secret check boxes before it deems you worthy of sharing your stuff on the network. Once you've convinced it that you do, in fact, know what you're doing and you want to share something to the rest of your network, it goes passive aggressive and limits the number of connections - I'm pretty sure that that is where most of my problems were coming from. Things would sort of work. Finally, all shares are not equal. As I recall there were issues of where the folder was that I was sharing. If I recall corrrectly I couldn't share folders in my personal area, i.e. c:\documents and settings\me or lower. I think I ended up copying my photos and mp3s to c:\mp3 and c:\photos and sharing them out to the net. The end of this story is that the XP box now dual boots to RH 8.0 and I only use XP when I need to work in Photoshop. When I do back stuff up to the server, I use rsynch which is much faster than using copy/xcopy with samba. I'd consider pulling the data from the XP side as I've found that more reliable in the past. --rick Pastor Doug Coats wrote: >By the way... > >If anyone knows another way I could accomplish the same thing without using >Smbmount I am open to suggestions. > >All I want is for Linux to copy the dump of the /home directory over onto my >PC. Here's the catch. None of the partitions on the server are large >enough to hold a full backup of the /home directory. > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list