Hi all: After a little more ad hoc testing (and looking at the log files again) I have a little more info, though not a solution yet. I'm starting to get the feeling that it's something obvious I've missed... After restarting samba, the nmb log shows this: 1998/12/16 13:23:41 ***** Samba name server RAMA is now a local master browser for workgroup IV&V on subnet 192.168.0.2 ***** Why is the subnet address the same as rama's IP address? Is this normal? The smb log shows a lot of this: Can't open /dev/null Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host. rama open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was Invalid argument What the heck does this mean? As soon as I start samba, the Network Neighborhood hoses up and eventually comes back with "Unable to browse network. Network busy." If I kill samba, then Network Neighborhood comes back normal almost immediately. Can somebody please point out my stupidity? Thanks in advance, Steve (smb.conf follows) [global] workgroup = IV&V server string = Linux WWW/samba Server hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes ; printing = bsd guest account = ftp log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user ; password server = <NT-Server-Name> ; password level = 8 ; encrypt passwords = yes ; smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd username map = /etc/smbusers ; dead time = 15 ; include = /etc/smb.conf.%m socket options = TCP_NODELAY ; interfaces = 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24 ; remote browse sync = 192.168.3.25 192.168.5.255 ; remote announce = 192.168.1.255 192.168.2.44 os level = 65 domain master = yes preferred master = yes ; domain controller = <NT-Domain-Controller-SMBName> ; domain logons = yes ; logon script = %m.bat ; logon script = %u.bat ; logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U ; wins support = yes ; wins server = w.x.y.z ; wins proxy = yes dns proxy = no preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes ; default case = lower ; case sensitive = no mangle case = yes [homes] comment = Your Home Directory browseable = no writable = yes alternate permissions = yes create mode = 0644 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except # for people in the "staff" group [public] comment = HTML Document Tree path = /home/httpd public = yes writable = yes printable = no write list = root, admin, usera, etc # This is the /usr/doc tree [docs] comment = Linux docs path = /usr/doc public = yes writable = yes printable = no write list = root, admin, usera, etc [source] comment = Source Code path = /usr/src valid users = usera, userb, etc public = no writable = yes printable = no **************************************************************** Stephen L. Arnold Senior Systems Engineer ENSCO Inc. email: arnold.steve@ensco.com P.O. Box 5488 www: http://www.ensco.com Vandenberg AFB, CA 93437 voice: 805.734.8232 x68838 fax: 805.734.4779 #include <std_disclaimer.h> ****************************************************************