What does it mean if a windows XP consistently doesn't show up in findsmb even when it does show up in smbstatus? Also, I don't know if this is related or not, but the same machine sometimes shows up in smbstatus with two different PIDs. We've seen this with two different machines, both running XP. Here's smbstatus output (the machine in question is accountingiii): Samba version 3.0.4 PID Username Group Machine ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3177 btalbot users accountingiii (10.2.240.134) 30059 bbeerman users beermanlaptop (10.2.240.141) 30020 mlugo users border01 (10.2.240.188) 15173 pfwup users acctmax (10.2.240.2) 20338 btalbot users accounting3 (10.2.240.131) 16158 llawrence users df2x1121 (10.2.240.190) 2872 kpotts users accountingii (10.2.240.147) 11898 apayne users paynelaptop (10.2.240.143) 26290 btalbot users accountingiii (10.2.240.134) run again a few minutes later: Samba version 3.0.4 PID Username Group Machine ------------------------------------------------------------------- 30059 bbeerman users beermanlaptop (10.2.240.141) 30020 mlugo users border01 (10.2.240.188) 15173 pfwup users acctmax (10.2.240.2) 20338 btalbot users accounting3 (10.2.240.131) 16158 llawrence users df2x1121 (10.2.240.190) 2872 kpotts users accountingii (10.2.240.147) 11898 apayne users paynelaptop (10.2.240.143) 26290 btalbot users accountingiii (10.2.240.134) (Don't let accountingiii and accounting3 confuse you.) -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ Trinsic Solutions http://www.trinsics.com 1611-B West 6th Street Austin, TX 78703-5074 512-322-0180 If you don't apply what you've learned, you haven't learned anything. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 235 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20040525/f9d73d7a/attachment.bin