Hello- Note: I'm a newbie. I have Samba running on redhat.It appears to be setup correctly, but the problem is: When I try to ping my PC from the redhat machine, I get 100% packet loss. SETUP: --I have no firewall setup on my linux machine, but i do in my router/hub. --I am using dhcp for these 2 machines behind my hub giving out 192.168.1.100 amd 192.168.1.101 --My etc/hosts file looks like (NOTE: feathers and magus are my respective computer names): 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.101 feathers feathers 192.168.1.100 magus magus --My etc/resolv.conf file shows the 2 nameservers that my router/firewall points to. they are correct. I then run: etc/sbin/smb start it says [OK] when it starts Also, I can see the redhat machine from my PC, but I can't get into it. Any ideas???? Thanks a bunch- Mac