so it is possible for me to just create a userid as on my win2000 box in order to follow these steps identically. btw, I confirmed that the name of the knoppix box is "amd400" (no quotes), however even tho i've clicked on the start samba service and entered my root pwd, I can't just see the \\amd400 share from my network neighborhood in win2000


ideas?....(if my questions are too nu bee, i'll post to the right forumn/group if you point me in that direction).

thanks