I have installed mandrake 9.1 on my laptop without kde and x and all that other crap but i am having trouble getting samba to work properly. It starts perfectly. But when i create a network share to access via "my network places" from a windows machine it appears in the workgroup and i click on on the icon for the share i created with root as the user permitted to the share but when i enter the username and password the password box just flicks up again but with the name_of_windows_machine\root as the username and no password in the box. if i enter the correct password it keeps on flicking back.

So far with samba anyform of user access dosn't work easily, and i still havn't figured it out Basically make security = share and try not to need any user input for name and password, it makes life less frustrating, for a share this is what i have and it works with any machine [Music] comment = Music Files path = /server/music read only = No guest ok = Yes make sure the folder on linux has been chmod -c 777 /pathanme to allow anyuser to read/write just as a referance here's my global stuff [global] workgroup = LAN netbios name = SERVER server string = interfaces = eth0 eth1 192.168.100.3 192.168.100.4 security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = Yes log level = 5 log file = /server/%U.samba template homedir = /server/home/%U hosts allow = 192.168.100. 192.168.1. 127. i have no comments so if you have any ? just ask and i'll try to answer it also what version of samba...when i figure out that samba to windoze user stuff i'll post it but as of now it dons't work. Somthing about how the password maybe transported, i know it does recieve the user name because of the log files. Anyway when i get it to work i'll post it...

Have you added the windoze username to your linux system? First you have to create the user: # useradd jack and then add them to the samba users database: # smbpasswd -a jack

cheers guys i will try what you have said out.