Hello All, I have recently switched back over from using the MySQL backend to the standard smbpasswd file in an effort to make our implementation of Samba better.\ I am still having a great problem with getting messages from the nmbd daemon saying that ------------------------ [2005/09/10 14:53:43, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1050) process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 172.16.0.1. Source name PEOPLESQUEST<00> is one of our names ! [2005/09/10 14:56:52, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1050) process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 172.16.0.1. Source name PEOPLESQUEST<00> is one of our names ! [2005/09/10 15:00:07, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1050) process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 172.16.0.1. Source name PEOPLESQUEST<00> is one of our names ! -------------------------- we wanted to run our own wins server as well as our people connect to our samba server via OpenVPN on the 172.16.0..0 subnet but could not get Samba to resolve the name properly so currently they have to use: \\172.16.0.1\lonnie (for example) and we wanted \\peoplesquest\lonnie (not sure how to get this to work cleanly) ----------------------------- #======================= Global Settings ====================================[global] name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast idmap gid = 10000-20000 browse list = yes remote browse sync = 172.16.0.255 hosts allow = 172.16.0.1/24 netbios name = PEOPLESQUEST oplocks = True browseable = yes idmap uid = 10000-20000 remote announce = 172.16.0.1/PEOPLESGROUP 172.16.0.255/PEOPLESGROUP local master = yes preferred master = yes workgroup = PEOPLESGROUP os level = 255 socket address = 172.16.0.1 hosts deny = ALL security = user winbind separator = + log level = 1 log file = /var/log/samba/users/%m.log mangled names = Yes socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE SO_REUSEADDR SO_BROADCAST TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY IPTOS$ level2oplocks = True domain master = yes interfaces = 172.16.0.1/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1 encrypt passwords = yes public = yes wins support = yes server string = PeoplesQuest Web Hosting Service bind interfaces only = Yes winbind cache time = 15 name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast ---------------------------------------------- any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lonnie