This is sounding more and more like the problem I had with Samba. I did reply before (perhaps you missed it?) about turning off the firewall on the Server to see what happens. For me it sorted it out. Just then need to start to work on the firewall rules. Neil. On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 14:45, toby wrote: > Bob Parry wrote: > > > > Well I'm making "progress". I have tried net use from the windows > > boxes but I did not know the sintax properly. I tried as you suggested > > and the error has changed! > > > > It now says that no service is running at the the Samba end. > > That may be your problem - the smb service is not running. > What does > > service smb status > > show? Should be something like this: > > smbd (pid 5115) is running... > nmbd (pid 5120) is running... > > If it's: > > smbd is stopped > nmbd is stopped > > Then start it with: > > service smb start > > Starting SMB services: [ OK ] > Starting NMB services: [ OK ] > > > And to have it always start at boot > > chkconfig --level 345 smb on > > > > -tkb -- Thanks, Neil 07973 206168 mailto:neil@c-w-services.co.uk http://www.c-w-services.co.uk -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list