thanks to all of you who tried helping with my setup in samba of a 
redhat/win network at home. after 8 more hours;  and using /webmin/ 
instead of /samba/; my former instructor in linux was able to get the 2 
talking together.
problems were; security set too high in redhat (standard install),
old laptop w/windows 98 ; had to go to win xp,
path for shared files was too long ie; /home/stormy/filename,  worked 
better with just /shared filename.

don't think i could help anyone else do this, the total time was 24 
hours. linux needs to work this out for (simple) desktop users to 
popularize it. :-P  ( webmin was definitely easier to use than samba)
betty i
see you all saturday

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