On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:12 -0500, Tim Holmes wrote: > > Craig -- the testparam -sv returned the following output and the > onscreen display indicated loaded services file OK > > I have this feeling that I am in way over my head -- I printed the how > to book last night, so as soon as I get done teaching tonight im gonna > dive in there and see what I can find, but any help you can supply would > be gratefully accepted > > My Current SMB.CONF file is appended after the output of the testparam > -sv below > ---- You obviously fixed the 'services' issue by using Thomas' stuff The problem that you are having with users and passwords is that you have to have both Linux users and samba users. i.e. useradd craig # adds user craig to Linux system passwd craig # sets password for user craig on Linux system smbpasswd -a craig # adds Linux user craig to samba smbpasswd craig # sets samba password for samba user craig Some amount of this can be shortcut - read the HOWTO Craig