Hi, In order to use samba with windows xp professional does my windows xp system need to be directly connected to the linux box and I am using dinamic ip addresses and want to be able to share files between windows xp professional and redhat9. Also in windows xp I can't find where to tell windows what domain to use for the samba server, I have the group name set but I can't seam to figure out what else I need to do to get it working. I am using a 2wire home portal with sbcdsl. bye -- My web page is at http://www.nickgawronski.com.