thanks for your help yes, my laptop is already registered as a machine in work's LAN. So, the problem for me was whether I had to investigate the nfs method or the samba one. just another question: do I need to have installed dhcp for this task? cheers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Gran" <steve@lobefin.net> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 12:56 PM Subject: Re: network folder