Hello, I have Samba setup and working somewhat, my intention is really not to provide file shares at the moment but to function as a WINS server for network neighborhood browsing through/across routers. I believe I have the necessary settings enabled, such as: wins support = yes preferred master = yes local master = yes But so far the Samba server does not seem to be getting the remote master lists from any other locations. (Our offices are not subnetted but each office uses a different third octet to differentiate them, I.e. Minneapolis=192.168.20.xxx, Boston=192.168.25.xxx, etc, and the PC's there are statically addressed windows 98 machines.) But our remote offices don't have servers in each location, in fact many only have 2-4 Windows 98 workstations So I don't have an easy way of know which PC is the local master browser in that location and since they are Windows 98 workstations they probably get rebooted often and the local master browser may not always be the same PC so I can't list the IP addresses with the Remote Browse Sync variable and force local browse list collation with the Samba server. Can anyone tell me how to get the browse lists to collate with the Samba server without knowing what the IP of the local master browser is? Thanks, In advance Mike Partyka Stonepath Logistics IT Network & Hardware Technician (651) 905-4372 Desk (651) 208-5734 Cell (651) 405-4342 Fax