I setup the samba server to be a wins server on my network when ever I browse the network it takes for ever to come up and sometimes it takes awhile to even to bring up the share or I don't see them. I am using lmhost on win xp system and the linux system for dns. When ever I do restart on the samba server it gives me this error. (shutting down nmb services ./smb: line 201: kill (6442) - no such process.) Below is my log from log.nmb. Thanks for everyone's help. [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:send_netbios_packet(172) send_netbios_packet: send_packet() to IP 4.64.103.255 port 137 failed [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:register_name(360) register_name: Failed to send packet trying to register name ZEROHOUR<1e> [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:register_name_response(109) register_name_response: server at IP 192.168.1.20 rejected our name registration of ISERVER<20$ [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_mynames.c:my_name_register_failed(40) my_name_register_failed: Failed to register my name ISERVER<20> on subnet 192.168.1.254. [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namelistdb.c:standard_fail_register(290) standard_fail_register: Failed to register/refresh name ISERVER<20> on subnet 192.168.1.254 [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(756) Packet send failed to 4.64.103.255(138) ERRNO=Operation not permitted [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:register_name_response(109) register_name_response: server at IP 192.168.1.20 rejected our name registration of ISERVER<03$ [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_mynames.c:my_name_register_failed(40) my_name_register_failed: Failed to register my name ISERVER<03> on subnet 192.168.1.254. [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namelistdb.c:standard_fail_register(290) standard_fail_register: Failed to register/refresh name ISERVER<03> on subnet 192.168.1.254 [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:register_name_response(109) register_name_response: server at IP 192.168.1.20 rejected our name registration of ISERVER<00$ [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_mynames.c:my_name_register_failed(40) my_name_register_failed: Failed to register my name ISERVER<00> on subnet 192.168.1.254. [2003/01/15 17:32:20, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namelistdb.c:standard_fail_register(290) standard_fail_register: Failed to register/refresh name ISERVER<00> on subnet 192.168.1.254 [2003/01/15 17:33:34, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(756) Packet send failed to 4.64.103.255(138) ERRNO=Operation not permitted [2003/01/15 17:35:38, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(756) Packet send failed to 4.64.103.255(138) ERRNO=Operation not permitted -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed