I have two servers running samba 2.2.27 on redhat 7.3 os. I have configured the servers identically with the exception of having different netbios names in order to differentiate the servers when looking at them through network neighborhood. One of the machines I have no difficulty logging into (with win xp) and manipulating files. I have noticed when you do this you will be told that you are "connecting to (with the name of the machine)" which is right above the user name field. At the top of the window in the blue band you see "Connect to (with the name of the machine). On the server that I can log into the names of the machines in the 'connecting' and 'connect' messages are the same. On the machine I cannot log in on they are different. It is as though it is showing the name of the machine when it was an NT box on a different domain. Do I have to make this machine have a static ip address to get this to work properly? If so what is the linux command to setup the ip address? Or do I have a problem with my samba configuration? Here is my snb.conf file # Samba config file created using SWAT # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2003/01/21 14:15:25 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = HDS netbios name = oittic1 server string = samba encrypt passwords = Yes obey pam restrictions = Yes pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* unix password sync = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 preferred master = No local master = No domain master = No dns proxy = No printing = lprng [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No [oitshare] path = /var/oitshare2 valid users = jhjoyner,jalene,oit writeable = yes public = yes directory mask = 0777 Thanks for your help! -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed