I posted this to the SuSe list and am posting it here also for the benifit of the SuSE users... To all who have recently had Samba problems since SuSE 6.1 installs...After much investigation I believe I have found the problem with the disappearing act of SuSE samba boxes from NT network neighborhood... First and formost After debugging for a week between 2 identical machines I found that the SuSe machine was never sending broadcast packets...Setting the log level to 5 allowed me to see that the SuSE server was sending broadcast packets to itself...what you say??? It seems that the standard rc.config has the dummy device configured to yes...Well the ifconfig (netmask=255.255.255.255)for dummy captures all broadcast packets...so...Samba only sent broadcast packets to itself and they never made it to the network...This also includes responses to broadcast packets from other machines on the same subnet. To see if this may be your problem type lsmod -a...if dummyX is listed then reconfigure rc.config to dummy=no and either reboot or go to /etc/rc.d/rcX.d directory and type the command ./S04dummy stop... If you have dummy built in to the kernel just check the rc.config dummy parameter and set it to no and stop the dummy service as above. This completely fixed all Samba problems on my machines and I was able to drop all but the plainest of configuration parameters for Samba...And the world has returned to normal(I think)... Mike Demeter Senior Design Engineer Oresis Communications, Inc. 14670 NW Greenbrier Pkwy Beaverton, OR 97006 email1: mdemeter@oresis.com email2: mmips@agalis.net