SAMBA machine in "My Network Places" - the W2k equivalent to the Network Neighborhood. This is true for my Windows NT servers as well. I can double-click on the SAMBA machine and after a (very) long pause, I get presented with the expected lists of shares. I double-click on a share and after another (very) long pause I can see files in the shares. But here's where it gets flaky... After a period of time (no pattern here that I can tell) I can no longer access the SAMBA shares or even pull a list of shares from the machine. When this happens, I try the old method for connections - the "net" command. I can issue "net view \\gateway" or "net use X: \\gateway\ftp" and I get this in return: H:\>net view \\gateway The Server service is not started. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2114. When I check out error "2114" I really get no more helpful info - it all applies to Windows' services... The funny thing about this whole problem - after another few minutes the machine begins working again, and the whole process starts over again. During these "blackout" times, the SAMBA machine still appears in "My Network Places", but I think that's because of how Windows cache's things. The machine is always back up before the cache time expires. At first, I thought I had the Firewall (IPChains) blocking it. But I've checked that and ports 137-139 on both TCP and UDP pass through just fine (I have the firewall down at this point). Then I thought it was because of the two NICs I had, but I've limited SAMBA to the "Internal" and loopback interfaces. I've also added the "bind interfaces = true" to the smb.conf. The "external" NIC isn't even plugged up yet. I'm not exactly sure what else I need to send that may be helpful, but if any additional info is needed, I'll be more than happy to forward it along. Thanks, Kevin L. 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