Hello, Thanks to everone who replied to my question about installing Samba last week. I have now managed to install it from the Redhat 7.1 CD's, and will install 7.2 or update from their Web site when this is working. The rest of the machines in our office are running Windows 98 SE. No password is requiredd for one machine to access another. Smbclient works on one of them, called "beans." If I type smbclient -L beans There is a brief wait, then it asks for a passwork. I press enter as the man page instructs, and get a list of things on beans, including the hard drive and printer. The command then terminates. I have tried a number of different ways to get the prompt that would allow smbclient to operate like ftp, but it always gives either a list or an error message and then terminates. Another machine on our network is called "welcome." smbclient always says that the connection failed. Thanks for any suggestions. John -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703