Distinguished Ladies & Gentlemen of the Samba list, I implore you to read further. We have two samba servers, on one of them we have a strange problem. After logging in and mapping network drives, if you open 'my computer' the machine hangs for 15-20 seconds before showing local and network drives. On our other samba server, we don't have this problem. As far as I can tell, the only difference is the IPC$ share. PCs that log in to the domain with the performance problem get the following error message when trying to open \\server\ipc$ from the 'run' menu: \\server\ipc$ is not accessible. network access is denied. My suspicion is that win2k machines try to access ipc$ and get denied, then wait for a timeout, and display the network drives to the best of their ability (accurately & completely BTW) Any advice or commiseration you can offer would be greatly appreciated. TIA --- Sam Barasch Computer Systems Support Department of Biostatistics University of Wisconsin Madison