In my experience. Swat is good if you have already used samba before and know what all the Options do. Else you can end up with a setup that's far more configured than you will want to and you can get some weird problems. Your best bet would be to edit your smb.conf manually and just setup what you need and let samba handle the defaults for everything else. I will try to find a guide for you so you can follow it and have some documentation handy (i will send it in a separate mail) I feel your pain btw. I have been in the exact same situation and all went good cause of forums and persistence! So don't give up and know I will help you in everything I can :D Cheers <div class="gmail_quote">On 2011 5 31 17:19, "bill bixby" <<a href="mailto:phyremon@yahoo.com">phyremon@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: </div>