If you stay on Windows NT 4.0 SP 1 without updating to SP6a then you are asking for problems. There has to be over 3,000 fixes since SP1 "most" software available today will not install with less then SP3 on NT 4.0

DawgBoy... - GO WITH KiXtart v4.01 You won't be sorry. It can do everything v3.63 can and then some... If it works good for systems running 1,000s of machines, I'm sure it will work just fine on a Home system.

As far as what your tyring to do with Linux and SAMBA ... You tell us your success and failures as I don't think too many other users are trying to do that.