In hope and all googled out, have used the basic samba functions for some time. Have now installed a few RH ES3 & 4 machines and in the majority of cases, just have PC's access directories on the Linux servers and mount points from Linux to PC's. Have noticed, after the fact, that findsmd only finds itself. On the same network have two Linux machines Redhat 7.2 findsmb gets all of the machines Redhat ES3 findsmb only returns itself rpm -q samba returns samba-3.0.10-1.4E.6 Who what were & why Will address this first as there are a few issues regarding these OS's and samba/windows Regards & TIA Valdis