Good evening all... I know this question has probably come up a thousand times before but I can?t find my answer and I?ve searched the net high and low, been through the books I have and even took a trip through the Samba source code and I?m not finding my answers, so maybe someone more with Samba and Active Directory knowledge than I can help! I?m running 3.5.6 on CentOS 5.5 and my configuration file is inline below. The Samba server itself is working. From Windows, Mac or Linux (smbclient) I can connect to the UNC just fine (\\server\share) and read/write with no problems. But when I pop open Network Places I can?t see the Samba server. All the other Windows servers I have show up in Network Places including a Netgear NAS and a printer that has a SMB share on it. Some details about my network: ... I am not using WINS. ... NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled. ... DNS is configured correctly and the fully (un)qualified server name can be resolved. ... I can ping everything from anywhere in all directions. ... Adding disable wins and/or disable netbios to smb.conf does not make any kind of a difference. ... Net ads join was successful, net ads testjoin work and all the wbinfo commands work just fine. ... I?m using Winbind of the Linux box to pick up AD users and uid?s and that?s all working. ... I have a single AD 2008 domain controller. ... The domain passes dcdiag. ... I would prefer not to run a WINS server if I don?t have to. ... Yes I know it can take a long time for the computer browser to update :-) You might see some strange stuff in my configuration file but the intended use of this particular machine is to be one of many in a cluster; I just haven?t gotten that far yet. Remember, it?s working, I just can?t browse it. So, any help that anyone can offer is greatly welcomed. The quicker I can get this working, the better off I?ll be! Thanks, -brian [global] workgroup = 8950HIX netbios name = smbserver server string = GPFS Samba Server %v password server = * realm = 8950HIX.COM security = ADS idmap uid = 20000-30000 idmap gid = 20000-30000 template shell = /bin/bash template homedir = /gpfs/home/%D/%U winbind use default domain = Yes winbind offline logon = no winbind nested groups = Yes winbind nss info = rfc2307 encrypt passwords = yes log level = 3 log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log idmap backend = tdb2 fileid:mapping = fsname use mmap = no vfs objects = gpfs, fileid gpfs:sharemodes = No force unknown acl user = Yes nfs4: mode = special nfs4: chown = yes nfs4: acedup = merge auth methods = guest, sam, winbind max log size = 50 load printers = No os level = 0 local master = No domain master = No preferred master = no dns proxy = No passdb backend = tdbsam idmap backend = ad [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /gpfs/home/%D/%U browseable = no writable = yes [GPFS] comment = GPFS Filesystem path = /gpfs browseable = yes writable = yes