Mark Sargent spake the following on 5/3/2006 6:15 AM: > Venom User wrote: > >> Might also try .. >> #smbpasswd -a <username> >> Adds the user to the smb password list. >> > Hi All, > > thanx for that, as I seem to have progressed some. I now get an error > stating that the path doesn't exist. It certainly does as I did a pwd, > copied/pasted it into the smb.conf file. I chose, Connect using a > different username, and input the username/password that exists on the > Linux box, and that also has permissions to access in smb.conf and also > has been added to smbpasswd now as you suggested. I see two logs, > 10.0.0.1.log, which is empty, and home-hehbbzsuy7.log which mentions, > > [Date omitted by me as I'm not coming from the offending box] > smbd/service.c:make_connect(800) > home-hehbbzsuy7 (10.0.0.1) couldn't find service home > > I get that, because after first failing as racket/password, it gives a > prompt to login as the Windows Hostname, which is not what I want. > > Cheers. > > Mark Sargent To access the share you have in the sample smb.conf earlier you would need; \\servername\myshare (You don't list a servername in your example) -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!