Hi, I know that this problem is beeing discussed since weeks and several times, but so far I have not found what I am looking for... I have a small network with a smb box (suse 9.0 smb 2.9) a hardware router which is doing the dns forwarding and dhcp service and 4 laptops. Three laptops have XP and one is older and is running 98. The 98 box can access the smb box without any problems, but from XP I can see the network, but I can not access it, I can not even access XP Folders which are shared. The funny situation is that I am also in charge of a similar network, but the difference there is that the router is a fli4l / linux box and that there are except for my xp laptop only 2000 machines running like a dream for more than a year, there I can access the smb machine from XP, but only like a lottery, sometimes it works, some times it does not. There I can influence it, by changing some parameters back and forth and restarting the smb server several times. I am completly clueless, where the solution lies - do I have an XP problem (beside the fact that M$ is a general problem...), do I have a DNS problem or is it Samba? During the last days I read a posting here that most of this problems should be solved by upgrading to 3.0.4 and that changing the M$ registry does not help at all? Is this true? If necessary I will provide the conf.files Desperate for help Matthias