>> > It is possible, because I am doing it. I have share=user and have home > directories viewable by the user and the admin (me). I have various > departmental shares that each department can access and no one else > (but the admin -- again me). Even shares that aren't browsable, so no > one even knows they are there if not given access. > And I have several public shares, some read-write, some read only with > install files and such. USers that try to access a share they have no > permission to get the logon box, but it will never actually auth > because their rights don't allow it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have no doubt it's possible....might it be possible for you to post a sanitized version of your [globals] and one or two of the shares from the smb.conf file so that I can compare what's working for you with what's not working for me? TIA, -Ray