Many thanks all for the help with the printer hookup problem. I can now print and use drives/shares on my samba server from my XP-home edition just fine. My problem now I think is a windows problem, but some of you have probably seen this or know how to avoid it in any case. My XP-Professional boxes seem unable to "find" my samba server for either network drives or printer. I note the following, hoping it might help you to help me. Hosts - OS --------------------------------- david - RedHat Linux 7.3 (samba server) dfr - XP - Home Edition fu - XP - Home Edition armando - XP - Professional Edition aichingf - XP - Professional Edition [root@david root]# nmblookup david querying david on 192.168.131.255 192.168.131.124 david<00> [root@david root]# nmblookup dfr querying dfr on 192.168.131.255 192.168.131.121 dfr<00> [root@david root]# nmblookup fu querying fu on 192.168.131.255 192.168.131.125 fu<00> [root@david root]# nmblookup armando querying armando on 192.168.131.255 querying armando on 192.168.130.255 name_query failed to find name armando [root@david root]# nmblookup aichingf querying aichingf on 192.168.131.255 querying aichingf on 192.168.130.255 name_query failed to find name aichingf Many thanks for your help. -- Dave -- David F. Reed -> email: W5SV@arrl.net (for pgp key: davereed@W5SV.org http://keys.pgp.com/ )