Thanks will try all of above and see what happens first gonna put in win 2000 then go from there. On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 15:57 Europe/Rome, Michael Adams wrote: > Windows 98 logs in using the current username by default, and there's > no way to change it. So if you're running as joe on win98, then it > will try to connect to you cube as joe. If the user joe doesn't exist > on your cube, then obviously it won't work. If joe does exist on the > cube, then go into Accounts in System Prefs and edit the user. Then > click on the box down the bottom that allows them to log on from > windows. > > Another point... I don't think win98 can use the printer sharing that > OS X offers (which is I believe the Internet Printing Protocol). I > believe this is a WinME, 2k and XP feature only. What I'd recommend is > downloading a program called Samba Sharing Package > (http://xamba.sourceforge.net/ssp/) which allows you to share printers > and other folders (not bound to users, ie a common shared folder) with > windows machines. There's a knack to getting it to work, but it can be > done: I've done it for my mini-network. > > Finally, http://www.macosxhints.com has many hints on this subject... > there's bound to be a solution in there somewhere! > > --Michael Adams.