Folks -- thanks for all your help -- I have gotten the SAMBA AUTHENTICATION problem resolved -- I rebuilt the machine -- That machine has had as many as 5 different samba configs on it over the last 3 months as I have tried to get things figured out to make it work right. So now that I had a known working configuration, I just needed to clean all the other junk up Thanks so much for all your help I still have a few questions about how to configure permissions which I posted earlier, if anyone can help out, I would appreciate it TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Webmaster / Science Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14