This may have to do with the built-in firewall in XP. There is a checkmark, on by default, you need to "uncheck" to make XP shares visible to other machines. My recollection is that it is under the network properties, but I don't have XP in front of me at the moment so I can't look it up. I've run into this on quite a number of ma;chines where XP can "see" them, but they cannot see XP shares. The would cause smbmount to not be able to mount the share properly. Sorry for the lack of specifics; hopefully this points you in the right direction. Garrett Pastor Doug Coats wrote: >Recently I needed to upgraded to XP from Win98 to run an XP native phone >system program. Before that I had programmed our RH 7.1 Server to use >smbmount to copy a backup of our file server to my machine at a set time and >then unmount when done. This worked great before I had to upgrade. > >If I share a directory in XP with simple sharing off so that I can set the >permissions so that only I have access to the backup Samba does not seem to >complete the mount correctly. It locked up the entire file system and would >only show this smbmount as the only mounted partition but you could not >write to it. > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list