Hi, i can see some systems with the smb kde ioslave (smb:/ in konqueror) that i can't connect to even with smbclient, error message is: timeout connecting to 192.168.0.2:445 timeout connecting to 192.168.0.2:139 Error connecting to 192.168.0.2 (Die Operation wird bereits ausgef?hrt) - free translation "operation in progress" Connection to 192.168.0.2 failed sometimes ofcoure througb the smb nature the browse list is outdated, but nmap tells me that the machine is online? if i tell samba to be the lmb for this workgroup with: os level = 255 preferred master = yes i can see in wireshark that browser election takes place, and the pc in question releases the workgroup so that my pc is the new local master browser. Any ideas?