Can someone explain how (or if) Samba uses WINS to resolve a workstation ip when a user tries to log in? I have an NT box doing DHCP and WINS, and all pc's are set up correctly to use it, and the smb.conf points to it as well with a "wins server = x.x.x.x" line. Also in smb.conf I have name resolve order = wins host lmhosts bcast which I thought would tell Samba to use the wins server from above to resolve ip's of workstations trying to log in. However, I'm still having workstations that can't get mapped to a Samba share during boot (same old "Network is busy" error). So my questions go like this: is Samba REALLY using WINS and the "name resolve order" when it resolves during login? If so, is there a timeout somewhere that can be tweaked? The network most definitely is not clogged, it's all fully switched 100bt with only about 50 active workstations and a dozen servers. We have a network analyst doing monitoring with a Fluke network monitor device and he says we're doing great - very few broadcasts and nowhere near saturation. So given all of that, shouldn't Samba be able to go directly to the WINS server to resolve the ip of a workstation trying to log in? -- David L. Jarvis David@JarvisMountain.com --