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...and drops the netbios-ns reply. I'm wondering if there is a simple solution. I've got Samba 3.00beta2 on Gentoo Linux, but in this case I suppose it doesn't matter. I have a solution that is fairly simple, and would be nice to see in Samba 3.1, whenever that might come out. Write a libnmb.so that allows external programs to perform netbios tasks such as requesting name lookups or status nodes on names or ip addresses. Through some form of IPC, the library would notify nmbd, and perform the operation, using its own socket, thus saving time with socket creation and destruction. Later...