Hi Everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I posted a few messages about problems that I was having with a Win 98 client not being able to browse or connect to Samba 2.0.3 running on Linux. Thanks to help from David Collier-Brown and Hugh Redelmeier, I stumbled across the culprit although I still do not understand why it behaves as it does. Samba is running as the WINS server. There is a line in nsswitch.conf which reads: hosts: files nisplus nis dns When I looked in log.smb, I saw the following line: Gethostbyaddr failed for 192.168.1.54 where 192.168.1.54 is my Win 98 client. When I changed the hosts: line in nsswitch.conf to read "files", I was able to browse and connect very quickly. I have dial-on-demand on the Linux box via diald. I restored nsswitch.conf to its original state, i.e. hosts: files nisplus nis dns. When I try to browse the NN, diald brings up the PPP connection to do a DNS lookup. Until the PPP connection is made, the NN window does not display anything other than the sweeping flashlight. As soon as the PPP link is up, the NN is refreshed and I can browse and connect to the shares on the Linux box very quickly from the Win 98 client. Again, I notice a Gethostbyaddr failure in log.smb. Clearly, there is some connection between WINS and DNS that I do not understand. The documentation is sketchy on this. Why am I getting the gethostbyaddr failure? How can I prevent Samba from doing DNS lookups? Regards, Clifford Ilkay Dinamis Corporation 3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4N 3P6 Voice/Fax: 416-410-3326 mailto:clifford_ilkay@dinamis.com