Greetings again I was asked to clarify my earlier post, which I included below: Greetings all. I am having a bit of difficulty setting up samba on my Linux-mandrake 8.0 system. Thought maybe some of you would have suggestions. As far as I can tell all the software and drivers are up and running properly. The way I have my network configured is as follows. I have dsl running into the cisco 675 router, which outputs to a hub connecting the network. There are 3 boxes on the net. 2 are win98 and my linux box. All the boxes pull down ip's via dhcp from the router over the hub. the ip's are all in the 10.0.0.* range. Currently I am able to access the net on my linux box, but can't see the win98 machines. I have tried my luck at setting up samba with SWAT, to no avail. anything I should be looking for right off the bat? or anything to check. I have looked over some how-to's at linuxnewbie, and the standard linux how-to, and it seems that I am doing everything right. anyhoo, let me know if you have thoughts. I ran ifconfig and pulled up: eth0 inet addr 10.0.0.2 Bcast: 10.0.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0 lo inetaddr 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0 the win98 machines are getting ip 10.0.0.3 and 10.0.0.4 on the same mask after setting up samba in SWAT, I am unable to reach the other machines via ping or any other device, and likewise they can not "see" me. Is there anything I would need to change in the win98 boxes to allow this to work, as of yet I have left them be. Mostly I am looking to reach just one of them which has the storehouse for all my mp3's so that I can access them here (once I find the right driver for my Montego2 aureal2 soundcard (I know it isn't stable, but It worked on my mandrake 7.2 box)). Thanks, and sorry for the long post. -nate