Howdy, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way around this or can point me at what I'm doing wrong. I am currently trying to rid myself of WINS and use DNS for all name resolution, so I took the "wins server = xxx..." option out of my config file and changed the "name resolve order" to "hosts, broadcast" and the "wins support" to "no". Connecting to file shares still works but winpopups don't work if the two systems are on seperate networks ( file shares do ). So I started running smbclient manually and this is what I found. Then only two name resolver options that smbclient ever use when the -M option is given to it are WINS and BCAST. This seems to be so that a sort of list of available services can be given to the requesting system. That is all fine and good, but if I take out WINS, how are systems on a different subnet, going to get this info ? It doesn't appear as though its smart enough to use DNS to resolve the IP, and then go and ask the target if it can receive messages ( rec_avail flag ?? ). Does anyone know if it's possible for me to get this working how I want ?? i.e have all hosts use DNS to resolve names, and have all systems on all subnets receive popups. I am running samba 2.0.7 on Solaris 2.6 and FreeBSD 4.x. The PC's are all running NT 4.0. Thanks Anthony P.S. Pls copy me on the replies as I'm not a subscriber.