Anne Wilson wrote: >> > Like John, I fought long and hard to get user share working. I read > Eeverything I could, including buying Samba3 by Example. In the end I > admitted defeat and went back to shares. If you really want a public share with no authentication at all, share mode is probably the best approach. If everyone that should have access is logged into a windows domain anyway, you can transparently accept this authentication and either keep their user id (as for a home directory share) or force it or their group id into something that gives common r/w access to a share. You can also do the latter with explicit logins against uses in the smbpasswd file. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com