On Saturday 29 March 2003 17:25, David E. Meiser wrote:I am attempting to build a media server, using samba to transfer files to the media server from my Windows XP box and am unable to logon to the media server. I am able to get to the media server and view the open shares, but I'm unable to get to the shared files themselves (let alone write to the directory). When trying to access the folder, I get a login box that has "hostname\username" locked as the username. I'm unable to find anything that might have caused this. Below is the contents of my smb.conf. Any help would be appreciated.I just put up a Samba file server this weekend on a Debian SPARC box. I have a W98 and Wme clients. I am a Samba newbie. I put: security = user which is the default. In the globals section I put in: invalid users = root valid users = laptop, W98 I created a share: [netdisk0] path = /export/samba/netdisk0 guest ok = yes writeable = yes On the SPARC box I did: 1. adduser for laptop and W98 2. smbpasswd -a laptop 3. smbapasswd - a W98 4. kill -SIGHUP <pid of smbd> I restarted laptop and W98. When I clicked the Network Neighborhood icons I found the SPARC box. In the SPARC box icon i found netdisk0. I didn't have much success with the security = share option. I kept being asked for a password when I tried to access the shared resource. Huh??? I found that restarting the windoze boxes often fixed things when behavior got stupid. YMMV because you are using XP. HTH,