On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:53 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > Copy the contents of /etc/hosts into /etc/samba/lmhosts, re-start > samba, leave it a while, then try again. Umm, no. Not exactly... The hosts and lmhosts file have different formats. You could copy the same hostnames and IPs into the lmhosts file, but I found it easier to configure Samba to use normal DNS style resolution, rather than have yet another file to configure (the lmhosts file). -- (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.