First of all, to answer someone's question as to why I would masq. to private nets......Lack of data drops. We have a lot of engineers, and A LOT of pc's laying around. We manufacturer docks for laptops, and do much testing. If I only have two drops to the area, the engineer gets one for his workstation, and the other is assigned to a linux box w/2nics Now we can run another network off of a couple of hubs, and don't have to worry about "polluting" the rest of our network. I have since run into a case where we need to log into the nt domain server. Long winded, but there it is. To be perfectly honest, I never thought about SMB being an issue. I figured since ping, telnet, blah, blah was able to go from 192.168.3.0/24 -> 102.168.2.0/24 -> internet, dumb me just thought loggin into the domain would be just as simple. At first I thought it was a routing problem, but hello, ping worked. I suppose I am going to have to look into a Wins solution. The nt server that we are trying to log into also doubles as the wins server for 192.168.2.0/24 I have also put those settings into the win9x machines on the 192.168.3.0/24 pc's no big hurry on this, i just wanted to get it resolved. My next post is a bit more important as I'm having problems w/ezmlm&qmail not playing together. Mike mgcon@getnet.com http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon Phoenix, AZ USA