We have a situation where we do not want our samba servers broadcasting their netbios names on the network. I've never seen anyone else discuss this; before I post a possible patch to the samba code, I'm interested in knowing if anyone else would find this of use. Our organization has a 3000+node NT network. To cut down on broadcast traffic, the NT boxes are configured to NOT broadcast their netbios name. In NT-Speak: net config server /hidden:yes The only machines on our net that broadcast are well-known servers. Workstations and other department servers don't broadcast and don't show up in browse lists. Since WINS is used for name resolution, these "hidden" nodes are still available if they have the server service running (or, say, smbd <grin>): net use z: \\myserver\anyshare net view \\myserver etc. By default, SAMBA broadcasts its netbios name, and thus all samba servers show up on our browse lists. I've patched the sources to add an additional SMB.CONF parameter: Hidden server = yes | no # default = no If set to "yes", this parameter shunts the netbios and OS/2 Lanman name broadcasts. It has proven very stable for us since pre 2.0.x Samba code. Before I post this through the proper channels as a possible addition to the base code, I was wondering if anyone else out there feels this is useful. In the year I've subscribed to this list, I've never seen anyone request this sort of thing - so are we just so unusual that it wouldn't be applicable to the samba community in general? Any comments appreciated.