Alright. I have a Linux box with SuSE on it running Samba. Samba works; can map to it, transfer files, etc. But it doesn't work the way I'd like it to. Apparently Windows XP will only allow you to map to a particular Linux machine one time. This can be worked around by mapping once with the name (e.g., \\server\user) and once with the IP (e.g., \\198.383.87.3\user). However this only allows two separate connections. My problem is this: I have Samba set up to work with a variety of user accounts. I have several users, they log in, they get their home folders. However, I want them to see other folders as well and I don't want everyone to see the same folders. That is, let's say there are folders A B C on my Linux machine. I want one guy to see A and C and another guy to see B and C and a third guy to see them all, and I want this to happen by having them just log in with their personal accounts. The way it's set up now, each folder we have available on Samba has its own account, so you have to disconnect and then remap in XP with a different name. If I could do the above, we could avoid needing to map the same machine with several names at once. Keep in mind that I know absolutely nothing about Linux. I used a sample smb.conf and altered things in it, so there is a ton of superfluous stuff in it and I don't know how most of it even works. I'll post it below. The /builds directory referenced refers to a particular directory I wanted to be able to see when I first set this up. However, we now connect to it using its own account, so I don't think it needs to be referenced. Again, I have no clue what I'm doing. Thanks in advance. # smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented # version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE # Date: 2004-06-30 [global] # remove following line if there are errors socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=2048 SO_SNDBUF=2048 workgroup = CS_STAFF printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator username map = /etc/samba/smbusers map to guest = Bad User logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: security = user encrypt passwords = yes ldap suffix = dc=example,dc=com domain logons = no ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers local master = no passdb backend = smbpasswd wins server = wins support = no add machine script = preferred master = auto [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S browseable = no read only = No inherit permissions = Yes guest ok = no printable = no [profiles] comment = Network Profiles Service path = %H read only = No store dos attributes = Yes create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 browseable = yes guest ok = no printable = no [users] comment = All users path = /builds read only = No inherit permissions = Yes veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/ browseable = yes guest ok = no printable = no [groups] comment = All groups path = /home/groups read only = No inherit permissions = Yes browseable = yes guest ok = no printable = no

"...Apparently Windows XP will only allow you to map to a particular Linux machine one time..." Not sure if I quite understand. We have an XP pro workstation here at work which I successfully mapped three different shares from a samba server. Are you talking about mapping shares as different users without logging out of XP (not sure why you would want this) then when you map the drive you are given the option of connecting as a different user. Sounds more like an XP problem.