I posted this question before but unfortunately it did not help. Maybe now someone has a clue? I have a strange problem on windows 98 SE: when pinging to the sambaserver using the name, it is resolved to the local machine, not to the server, but I have both, c:\windows\hosts and c:\windows\lmhosts with correct IP adresses. They seem to be ignored for that. The same wrong resolution happens when calling the webserver. Does anyone know the reason? Thank you very much in advance for any suggestions. Best regards, Dieter