On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 07:17 -0700, Craig White wrote: > you don't actually expect people to parse that do you? No, I really expect the original poster to post theirs, and have it dissected and sorted out. Rather than try to fit someone else's configuration (mine) to theirs. > But I'm telling you that if you can't reliably ping and nmblookup > (which is somewhat similar to a ping), you're wasting your time here. I agree. As I said, and you've said before, it sounds like more basic networking problems need resolving before fiddling with Samba. Though I was also saying it can be done. And that Windows doesn't seem to work particularly better using its own system, than Fedora does using Samba. I don't recall whether Claude said whether he was pinging by IP addresses, or trying to use host or domain names. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.