I have Samba 2.07 on Mandrake 7.2 distro. I am proxying a DSL connection successfully over Squid. I do not have ipchains running but with all the BS Mandrake like to pack on it's hard to tell what it's scripts all do. All the tests with the smbclient on the samba machine work fine. Also all the test with nmblookup. I have a clean Ping from both ends. When I use smbclient to view my Win98 machine I can see the shares but it reports no Master or Workgroup. I can connect to a share on the Win98 box but if I try to browse or any other operation it gives me protocol error. From the Win98 box I can do nothing in explorer (browse, mount, etc) from dos I can use net view and net use. Once I mount a network drive via net use I can browse it but not reliably. I haven't been able to retreive anything either. If I try to use nmblookup to see the win98 client it finds it but reports not being able to determine its netmask. Here is my smb.conf: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from localhost (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2001/04/05 02:53:08 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = WEB_RAT netbios name = SAMBASVR netbios aliases = DAN server string = Dnkp Running Samba Server %v interfaces = eth1 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 bind interfaces only = Yes security = SHARE debug level = 3 log file = usr/local/samba/var/log.%m max log size = 1000 name resolve order = wins lmhosts host socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY printcap name = lpstat os level = 65 preferred master = Yes dns proxy = No wins proxy = Yes wins support = Yes guest account = sambausr hosts allow = 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 printing = cups print command = /usr/bin/lp -d%p -oraw %s; rm %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o%p lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j queuepause command = /usr/bin/disable %p queueresume command = /usr/bin/enable %p [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /export/samba/files writeable = Yes guest ok = Yes [files] comment = Files path = /export/samba/files writeable = Yes guest ok = Yes write cache size = 262144 fstype = FAT [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p %s # using cups own drivers (use generic PostScript on clients). lpq command = lpstat -o %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j [win98] comment = Windows 98 Installation Files path = /mnt/winsmall/Win98 guest ok = Yes Here is a sample of the kind of error I recieve in log.smb: [2001/04/04 21:50:34, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) smbd version 2.0.7 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2001/04/04 21:56:44, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(477) read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer [2001/04/04 21:59:39, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(477) read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer [2001/04/04 22:00:23, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(477) read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer I cannot see any errors in the log.nmb file Thanks for any help. Many people have raved about samba but so far it has been no fun for me. Dan Pupek On the Web: http://www.sunnet.net/dnkp/dan Email: megabyte@sunnet.net