Ok, I am having similar issues with user shares. I upg. from free 4.5.6 to pro 5.0b2. Shares are all public, no security. Everything worked fine on 4.5.6. Did the one-time "new security" thing and then I was finally able to get to the Shares again. I then plugged in a USB drive to the server, mounted it, copied a fairly large folder over to a new directory under one of the Shares. I did this through telnet using putty. When I tried to access this folder via \\tower\Images\35mm_slides, I got "Access Denied" again. Tried this from Win 7 and XP, same error. Images is the Share name, btw. Am I missing something? Should I not have copied files over this way? I'm pretty stuck here and am now considering going back to 4.5.6 for now unless someone can provide a solution. If I've left any crucial information out that someone might need to help, I'll be glad to provide it. Thanks!