hi all sambaers i've got a little problem with browsing. i'm using samba 1.9.17p4 on a linux machine, fwiw. since our servers are 'volatile' (i.e. they change functions from time to time), i'm trying to put their function instead of their real name in the browse list. so, if i'm looking for the fileserver, all i have to do is to search for a machine called fileserver in the browse list, and shares from that machine will be \\fileserver\share, whatever name fileserver has. first i tried with netbios aliases. for i while i had two 'records' for the same machine in the browse list: one with the tcp name, one with the 'virtual service' netbios name. fine for me. but the day after the machine completely disappeared from the browse list. it's still findable, both via virtual name and real name, but it doesn't show up. next i tried using netbios name, without netbios aliases, as the virtual name. no joy. no name shows in the browse list. what did i do wrong? -- || || ||||||| 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!