My recent experimentation suggests that Windows does a substantial amount of caching of network neighborhood information, and seems to ignore things like netbios name revocations when Samba shuts down, etc. Looking at packet dumps of Windows and Samba netbios broadcasts suggests their advertising is identical, and yet I occassionally don't see the Samba machine I'm playing with listed. So my question is, should it always be possible for an SMB server to get itself to show up in a LAN's network neighborhood or should the occassional non-appearance of a machine be written off as a caching/timing problem? Is it possible to have done everything right and sometimes not have your machine show up? Assume no WINS, all clients TCP, no rebooting clients. -- "Love the dolphins," she advised him. "Write by W.A.S.T.E.."