Ok, I follwed the samba diagnostics, I get to TEST 3 and you don't have the error that came up. My error is can't find \etc\lmhosts. I tryied to copy my mhosts from mywindows machine, that didn't work. My main problem is I can see other people on the network but they can't see my shares. My linux box doesn't even come up on their network neighborhood. Thanks Kevin Jonas