Hello, I am trying to learn how to use Samba. I first just want to get it to work, then I'll make it better. I am not concerned about security since everything is on a private network. I am following the material in "CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook" by Jonathan Hobson. I am using two virtual computers with Virtual Box running on Fedora 19. Both virtual computers have bridged networking. One virtual computer is Win7, the other is CentOS 6.4. They are both up to date. There is only one user, "admin", on the CentOS virtual computer. The Win7 computer can successfully ping the CentOS computer. My Win7 computer can not see the share on the Samba server. The command "# testparm" shows no errors. The command below gives the following error: [admin at CentOS ~]$ smbclient //CentOS/admin Enter admin's password: Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.9-151.el6_4.1] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED My smb.conf file, below, is taken from the book I am using. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated. Thank you, Joe Hesse [global] unix charset = UTF-8 dos charset = CP932 workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = CentOS netbios name = CentOS dns proxy = no wins support = no interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/24 eth0 bind interfaces only = no log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog only = no syslog = 0 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d security = user encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = tdbsam obey pam restrictions = yes unix password sync = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\ spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . pam password change = yes map to guest = bad user usershare allow guests = no domain master = no local master = no preferred master = no os level = 8 [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes writable = yes valid users = %S create mask =0755 directory mask =0755