Shouldn't I get lots of replies when I do a wildcard nmblookup ? root ~> nmblookup -d 4 '*' Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/usr/local/etc/smb.conf" Processing section "[global]" doing parameter workgroup = WORKNET doing parameter server string = mymachine.somenetworks.com doing parameter log file = /var/log/log.%m doing parameter max log size = 50 doing parameter security = user doing parameter socket options = TCP_NODELAY doing parameter dns proxy = no pm_process() returned Yes added interface ip=12.34.56.65 bcast=12.34.56.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 bind succeeded on port 0 Socket opened. querying * on 12.34.56.255 nmb packet from 12.34.56.255(137) header: id=11256 opcode=Query(0) response=No header: flags: bcast=Yes rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=No header: rcode=0 qdcount=1 ancount=0 nscount=0 arcount=0 question: q_name=*<00> q_type=32 q_class=1 nmb packet from 12.34.56.255(137) header: id=11256 opcode=Query(0) response=No header: flags: bcast=Yes rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=No header: rcode=0 qdcount=1 ancount=0 nscount=0 arcount=0 question: q_name=*<00> q_type=32 q_class=1 nmb packet from 12.34.56.255(137) header: id=11256 opcode=Query(0) response=No header: flags: bcast=Yes rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=No header: rcode=0 qdcount=1 ancount=0 nscount=0 arcount=0 question: q_name=*<00> q_type=32 q_class=1 name_query failed to find name * I also get nothing when I try a lookup on the workgroup: root ~> nmblookup -d 4 worknet Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/usr/local/etc/smb.conf" Processing section "[global]" doing parameter workgroup = WORKNET doing parameter server string = mymachine.somenetworks.com doing parameter log file = /var/log/log.%m doing parameter max log size = 50 doing parameter security = user doing parameter socket options = TCP_NODELAY doing parameter dns proxy = no pm_process() returned Yes added interface ip=12.34.56.65 bcast=12.34.56.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 bind succeeded on port 0 Socket opened. querying worknet on 12.34.56.255 nmb packet from 12.34.56.255(137) header: id=12135 opcode=Query(0) response=No header: flags: bcast=Yes rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=No header: rcode=0 qdcount=1 ancount=0 nscount=0 arcount=0 question: q_name=WORKNET<00> q_type=32 q_class=1 nmb packet from 12.34.56.255(137) header: id=12135 opcode=Query(0) response=No header: flags: bcast=Yes rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=No header: rcode=0 qdcount=1 ancount=0 nscount=0 arcount=0 question: q_name=WORKNET<00> q_type=32 q_class=1 nmb packet from 12.34.56.255(137) header: id=12135 opcode=Query(0) response=No header: flags: bcast=Yes rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=No header: rcode=0 qdcount=1 ancount=0 nscount=0 arcount=0 question: q_name=WORKNET<00> q_type=32 q_class=1 name_query failed to find name worknet I'm not running smbd or nmbd. This is Samba 2.0.7 on FreeBSD 4.1. Any ideas ? All the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Return address is bogus. Please reply to list.