Hi Gents, I have installed a PPro200 w/ 64 MB running 2.0.30 + Samba 1.9.17p1 (not vulnerable to security hole) and have about 48 clients in a school laboratory situation. I may have as many as 20 clients come up simultaneously. As of yesterday, I've had problems with small groups (or whole ROOMS!) coming up and reporting '... \\bserve\whatever ... the computer name could not be found ... (yada yada yada)'. Day One of 'the problem' was the stressed out day from hell, and nothing I tried worked. I'll grant that, with classes meeting all day, I only had a few hours of quality time with the lab. (By rebooting a small group of machines at a time, it worked) This morning, on a hunch, I reniced nmbd to -10, turned a lab off and back on a few moments later, and ALL the machines came up and connected (which, at this point, was nothing short of a miracle). Since class started in 5 minutes, I quit while I was ahead. Now, I reallize that 'one data point does not an experiment make' - but I thought I would check to see if anyone might have seen something like this, or had to take similar measures, or whether this made a bit of sense to anybody?!? I'll be monitoring this, and reading the f'n manuals, untill resolved... any feedback or troubleshooting suggestions or pointers to good reading material would be appreciated. Now, I'll try to give you all the other salient points: - All the clients are Win311, using the samba server for WINS - The browsing-related portions of the smb.conf: wins support = yes os level = 65 preferred master = yes local master = yes - The network interface is aliased; eth0 is a valid Internet address, eth0:0 is on the local, 'non-connected' subnet with the other machines. IP-masquerading is turned on to give the labs internet access (at teacher discretion via firewalling rules). Eventually, I would like to install a transparent proxy-cache on this machine (IF I can get stable file & print sharing working). A note to the developers: THANKS!!! Prior to this problem, the business dept. was THRILLED with the performance in these labs! Printing to HP jetdirect's seems to work real well, though I had to upgrade the firmware to the latest revision because previously the HP couldn't handle multiple print jobs in a single TCP connection. If anybody would like more info, feel free to e-me; but I think this is already long enough! Later... -- David L. Parsley Those who do not understand Unix Miracle worker & Linux Man are condemned to reinvent it, City of Salem Schools poorly. (H. Spencer)