Howdy When my redhat 6.1 samba-2.0.5a-12 on a dell/100/pentium, boots I see the output from boot.log Feb 17 16:13:24 nubble smb: smbd startup succeeded Feb 17 16:13:25 nubble smb: nmbd startup failed from the log.nmb [2000/02/17 16:13:25, 0] lib/util.c:get_myname(1756) Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host nubble [2000/02/17 16:13:25, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(689) Unable to get my hostname - exiting. Where is it looking for the host name?? -- Jim H. jamby97@sprynet.com Mailed with Netscape 4.7 on RedHat Linux 6.1 2000 years ago the Egyptians treated cats as Gods. They never got over it.