I am running the diagnostics to figure out why my client machine can't talk to the samba server, here's what I was able to find out. I went through the Hour 13 Troubleshooting from the samba.org web site (http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf) and I got all the way up to section where you test nmbd, and found the following problem: [root@server samba]# nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 SERVER querying SERVER on 192.168.0.255 name_query failed to find SERVER What is annoying is that the client machine (MIKELAPTOP) is clearly seen in the broadcast. [root@server samba]# nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 MIKELAPTOP querying MIKELAPTOP on 192.168.0.255 192.168.0.69 MIKELAPTOP<00> What could cause this? I have an incredibly simple smb.conf: [global] workgroup = ICI netbios name = SERVER server string = Samba Server log file = /var/log/samb/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd username map = /etc/samba/smbusers dns proxy = no [home] comment = home directories browseable = no writeable = yes -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed