Lee Howard wrote: | Yet, on another Samba network that I maintain, and which does | experience disconnects (well, the write_socket_data error), the | Win95/98 systems also do not have this registry key. How do I | know that adding this registry key will be beneficial when it | is not needed on other networks with a very similar configuration? Because the network configuration and components may be part of the (probably multi-cause) problem. Try it and see: it's arguably a harmless change on a modern network (ie, something other than a first-generation thicknet LAN that NetBIOS was designed for (;-)). --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com