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...g. This only seems to be a problem with samba-based clients; i've tried changing ip addresses on windows clients, and the WINs seems to detect the ip address changes immediately. For example, when i change the ip address for samba server serverA, from 192.168.101.1 to 192.168.101.2, an 'nmbloookup -R -U PDC serverA' returns 192.168.101.1, but an 'nmblookup serverA' returns 192.168.101.2. Upon suggestion from previous posts, the workaround now is to manually edit wins.dat on the WINS/PDC. While it does work well enough, i'm concerned that this may become a very big problem...

...rts an ``unknown system error'' and refuses to print. I'm not sure what this problem may be related to, though I suspect it has something to do with the Win95 box. Another thing that is happening (or not happening) is that when I use: net view It doesn't see the Linux server. nmbloookup works fine, the Win95 just doesn't want to actualy see the Linux server unless told expliciately what the server is called. Jessica