I have literally beat my brains out trying to get my XP machine to talk to my samba server on my linux machine. I was hoping you could offer some advice. Any help would be greatly appreciated. MY SETUP: XP machine: Hostname - winxp 2 ethernet cards - one going to my starband satellite modem one going to my linux machine IP address - 192.168.0.1 (the one connected to linux machine) Redhat linux 9.0 machine: Hostname - redhat one ethernet card connected to my XP machine. IP address - 192.168.0.252 MY PROBLEM: I believe I have a name resolution and possibly a broadcast address problem. The samba server (version 2.2.7a) is running on Redhat Linux 9.0. I can successfully connect to the XP machine and copy files from the XP machine to my Linux machine. But I cannot access my linux box from my XP machine (The samba server shows up in the browse list on winxp). RELATED INFO: - I can successfully surf the net from my linux machine - I can ping from redhat to winxp and from winxp to redhat. (initially I could only ping from winxp to redhat by using the ip. I added redhat to the lmhosts file on the winxp machine) - from redhat /sbin/ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:41:22:87:2F inet addr:192.168.0.252 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3787 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:2186 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4363 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:701638 (685.1 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000 - from winxp C:\Documents and Settings\Jerry Parker>ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : winxp Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter(LNE100TX v4) Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-04-5A-63-1D-1F Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 148.64.144.111 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.192.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 148.64.128.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 148.64.128.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 148.78.249.200 148.78.249.201 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, October 25, 2003 3:38:50 PM Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, October 25, 2003 4:08:50 PM Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NETGEAR FA311 Fast Ethernet Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-09-5B-09-77-4B Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : - from redhat: nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 redhat querying redhat on 192.168.0.255 name_query failed to find name redhat nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 winxp querying winxp on 192.168.0.255 148.64.144.111 winxp<00> 192.168.0.1 winxp<00> I don't know how to fix this. Thanks, Jerry Parker