On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 20:57 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote: > Hey mates, > > I set-up a smaba server on my laptop with a shared folder, and correct > work-group access, so that I can see it from my WinXP program on the > network... Now, I also managed the correct user access for the server, > with username = my username (ahelmy) and password... > > However, I cannot access the server (or the shared folder, that is) > from my WinXP pc, so... what else should I do? When I try and access > it, I get the permission denied error mesage ---- did you add the samba user ahelmy ? smbpasswd -a ahelmy Craig