> I saved the file there, thinking I could open/access it from > the W2KPro PC. But as the W2KPro PC could not > even 'see' the Linux machine on the Windoze network, > the effort was a waste of time. A couple of things to check: Firewall settings on both the windows machine & the Linux Machine may need to be tweaked. Samba needs to be in the same 'workgroup' as the windows machine(s). -- Bests, Jon