Hi again, I?ve made some advances in the quest to see the samba server in win network neighborhood. As I said in my last email we have a fresh Debian install running side by side with a ubuntu box with the same smb.conf (simple share) and the ubuntu would show up in the neighborhood while the debian wouldn?t... So, I started wondering whether it could be a hardware issue. Swaped nics and nothing new... so, what is different in this 2 basic sambas... the debian has fixed IP and is the DHCP server, and the ubuntu, as well as the win clients, gets its IP from the debian DHCPd... so, for the sake of debuging, plugged a TPlink router with DHCP server and changed the debian box to get its IP from DHCP, same as the others... and voila! they are all in the neighborhood!!! so, can anyone point me into a specific chapter of samba docs to sort this out??? what is it with fixed IP? is it a name resolution issue? thanx a million for any tips!!! Matias