Thanks for all of your help!! I have the firewall turned off. I do believe you have to be root to get around the permissions problem or at least it is the only way I have gotten it half way work. I still cannot write to the shared directory. I have been informed that this is probably because root is not a Samba user. I do not believe I want root to be a Samba user for the security headaches it could cause. Still searching... Doug _______________________________________________ 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