on the advanced tab you should be able to check effective rights for that user or group. you really should only dole out rights to groups, unless you only have one person accessing a share. you do know that there are two places to assign rights - the 'permissions' is who can see the share, and the 'security' tab is where rear/write/execute etc. is assigned. not trying to be condescending, just making sure you know. you said you tried unc and ip, stick with unc - that's what dns is for. as the user, try a Start, Run, \\servername [enter] - can the user see any shares on that box? *edit - may also want to check if uac is enabled on the server. that can cause trouble. don't dabble much in the windows arena these days - thank goodness.