Dear List! I use samba for couple of years now with a great satisfaction. Now I'm facing with a problem which could not solved. We got direct i-net connection jut now. I sit behind a firewall and the intranet address is occupied in the real world. I set the gatewy with "route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1". Then I could ping to the world. I created /etc/resolv.conf to contain one line (nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy). It worked well. The only problem was I can't use smbclient to transfer files and print to windows 3.11 and NT machines. After comment the one and only line in the resolv.conf this problem disppeard, but I could not use DNS any more. How can I configure samba not to try to look for DNS service and not to try to go to the internet if the address is in the intranet? What did I wrong?? TIA && bye From:, the untrustable