Greetings; Trying to make samba work to the f7 on my lappy fails, I had to reverse it and link from f7 to this machine, which did work. My main question is "How do I tell samba/cifs to allow lengthy passwords?" My root password is too long unless entered interactively from the keyboard. Where is the bottleneck? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Dear Lord: I just want *___one* one-armed manager so I never have to hear "On the other hand", again.