Hi all, and please excuse my English. I've a strange problem (probably not due to samba, but maybe other ones on this list have experienced it before). here's my LAN: xx.xx.0 segment xx.xx.1 segment WINS (linux) -| ISDN |- some linux |-- router -- router --| many win3.11 -| |- many win95 | few win95 -| | some linux -| all machines join the same workgroup and one of them, in segment 0, is the wins server. all linux boxes use samba (1.9.17p2/4). all machines point to the wins server. browsing seems to work. if i use smbclient, from the 0 segment, to access shares on the 1 segment, it works nicely as expected. from win95, it doesn't work at all. i can't find the shares, even if i see the machine holding the share. from segment 1, accessing segmanet 0, it works as expected, both from linux and win95. does anybody know what's wrong here? i can supply more info if needed. also: what's the correct syntax for a hosts allow command to: allow 127.0.0.1, xx.xx.0., xx.xx.1. deny xx.xx.0.a, xx.xx.0.b, xx.xx.1.c, xx.xx.1.d (if i read the man page correctly, allowing a wide range has precedence on denying a specific address, so it can't work the way i've written it above. wouldn't it make more sense to behave like xinetd does, i.e. exactly the oppusite?) i can't understand when the list is comma separated and when it's space separates (my fault, obvuiosly) MTIA -- || || ||||||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, Italy Microsoft is the question ||| ||| |||'' mfrattola@enjoy.it "No" is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free!