Dear all, First of all, I want to thank you so much for all your contributions so far. I have some contributions on my own in two fronts: - After all, even after having triggered the error messages that brought to this discussion, samba kept working and I felt no problem, until I needed some changes which I had no way to do the way I was used to - From release to release, Canonical introduces (I am afraid they're not the only ones to do things this way) changes in the way some things are done. Everybody knows the upheaval Unity brought to the desktop management area. In our case, it was just a question of where to go when a change in network sharing was needed, since Thunar (XFCE's file browser) was no longer capable of dealing with that task (once Thunar was network-aware, I no longer dealt with Nautilus). After some research (not a big deal, anyway) it was clear a new piece of software was supposed to be installed in the system (through apt-get or synaptic) to take care of those things. Now, I have a "Samba" menu entry, under "Applications | System". You're supposed to use it to take care of your network sharing, permissions, and so on. Coming to issues as to when or even if updating to a new release, I'd like to make a small contribution. I used to agree with Mr. Attfield, no matter if you're 64 or 34 (and I happen to be in my early 50's). However, I am waiting for the new 12.04 LTS to be released in order to upgrade all my systems to it. It is not just a question of fixing them, 'cause they aren't broken; it is a question of having all the benefits of a long term support release in the PCs I want to "forget" about. Of course, I will keep the DM and WM of my preference, but that's the beauty of Linux-based systems. -- Un saludo, Kind regards, Antonio Rodulfo Ingeniero Industrial, Ingeniero de Desarrollo y Consultor de Proyectos Industrial Engineer, Development Engineer and Project Consultant 2012/4/2 Guy Attfield