Kirkwood, David A said: > The documentation for smbmount seems to indicate that I > can connect to the windows system if I know some wins information such as the machine ID. How do I find this if I only know th ip, or better still what is the syntax of the command I need to execute on the linux system. The remote system is a windows server, but I don't know the version of the > O/S. man smbclient You can use smbclient -L (IP) nmap is also nice to search the entire network for nmb clients. ;) If it is an NT based windoze you will probably need a user name and password, at least a username (maybe not) for Win9x Knowing more about your network always helps. -- Scott -- Scott - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html