Do you get the Error for /IPADRESS/$IPC ? Then u have to edit the registry of Winodws and add a Dword like EnablePlainTextPassword , for german Users went here http://www.htw-dresden.de/~schreibr/samba.html English spoken have a look here http://tinyurl.com/63vnn Ist for Sun but the Registry Keys under Win are the same -- Deus