i am running freebsd stable with ipfilter and NAT is there anything that i have to do different with the smb.conf file to be able to mount a windows share mount_smbfs //user@server/share_name /path/to/mountpoint and everytime i get this message mount_smbfs: can't get server address: ssyerr = operation timed out is there something that i am missing i can ping the windows box and i have tried the ip as the server name and that still will not work i have also put the windows name in the /etc/hosts file and the same thing keeps happening i can access the samba shares from windows fine before i put ipfilters and NAT on everything worked great thanks for your help Ben