All, first off thanks for any advice on this issue. Last night, my fileserver crashed on me. When i came in this morning, here is what the syslog was filled up with: May 20 21:54:26 fileserver1 nmbd[15324]: [2004/05/20 21:54:26, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1063) May 20 21:54:26 fileserver1 nmbd[15324]: process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name FILESERVER1<00> is one of our names ! May 20 21:57:28 fileserver1 nmbd[15324]: [2004/05/20 21:57:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1063) May 20 21:57:28 fileserver1 nmbd[15324]: process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name FILESERVER1<00> is one of our names ! May 20 22:00:28 fileserver1 nmbd[15324]: [2004/05/20 22:00:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1063) May 20 22:00:28 fileserver1 nmbd[15324]: process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name FILESERVER1<00> is one of our names ! And here is the smb.conf file global section: workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = FILESERVER1 server string = Main file server security = SHARE encrypt passwords = true enhanced browsing = no log file = /var/log/smb.log #max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 os level = 128 domain master = Yes remote browse sync = 192.168.12.10 192.168.62.10 preferred master = Yes local master = Yes dns proxy = yes wins support = yes wins proxy = yes name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast interfaces = 192.168.1.255/255.255.255.0 192.168.12.255/255.255.255.0 192.168.13.255/255.255.255.0 192.168.62.255/255.255.255.0 192.168.1.6/255.255.255.0 remote announce = 192.168.1.255/WORKGROUP 192.168.12.10/WORKGROUP 192.168.1.6/WORKGROUP 192.168.13.9/WORKGROUP 192.168.62.10/WORKGROUP debug level = 2 Would that error message be related to the fact that it is remote announcing to itself? Also, this server is acting as a wins server in a workgroup environment, no pdc's, 2 subnets. If anyone needs more info, please ask!! Thank you. -chris