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I am not sure what is going on, but I have been missing potentially important information from the samba digest mailing because someone has chosen to use words such as as**hole and p**is in their posts. He have a filter at work that block these messages containing a variety of words. I cannot think of how these could have legitimate uses in samba admin. I look forward to receiving the samba

...would be appreciated. Hrmm. There's a bazillion possibilities here. A couple of questions: 1) Let's see your configuration (smb.conf). (OK, so this wasn't a question.) 2) How are your machines physically connected, and what interface(s) is smbd and nmbd listening on? 3) Is there any facist filtering in place (firewall stuff)? Perhaps a botched host allow/host deny config (not tcpwrapper stuff, the smb.conf stuff)? 4) Are you using WINS? If not, maybe you should. Although if all your machines are on the same network segment, and assuming nothing else is botched, Mars should respond....