I have samba 1.x on a red hat machine and 2.0.0b5 on a slackware machine. On the red hat box, I can "smbclient -L windowspc" and smbclient somehow does a name lookup to get the IP address of windowspc (it's not in /etc/lmhosts). However, on my 2.0.0 system it just hangs until it eventually says it can't find the address. These machines are on the same network and the smb.conf files appear to be similiar. Am I missing something? albert ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fact is solidified opinion