add a netbios name do you have a wins server on the local subnet? The WINS server that you reference is on a different subnet. Craig ----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----| - Craig White - PO Box 8634 - Scottsdale, Arizona - 85252 - e-mail address ................ - CraigWhite@AzApple.com - world wide web address ........ - http://www.AzApple.com - e-mail my pager address ....... - 6023779752@airtouch.net - cellular phone ................ - (602) 377-9752 - voice/facsimile ............... - (480) 945-8445 ----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----| > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Stephen > Smith > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 3:45 PM > To: Phoenix Linux User Group - Discussions; samba; Troyer, Dean > Subject: samba name registration ceases to work > > > About a year ago, I set up samba to run on a Linux box here at > work. Everything was > working fine, i.e. others could see the shares on the server and > get data from them. > My /var/log/samba directory had approx. 1000 entries in it. Over > the last day > approx. 5 machines can see the box. > > The windows NT 4.0 boxes can get their information from the WINS > server correctly and > can see the other machines on the local net, but not the samba box. > > The current theory is that the name is not getting registered > with the WINS server. > > Stephen Smith