Wow alot of input execellent; Thanks! Im going to post my smb.conf file that I currently have, from the responses it seems I either have to enable WINS proxy , but I have the option set local master = no . should I change this ? someone also pointed out I should add my windows boxes to the /etc/samba/lhhosts ? I think as the example looks i do computer ip address then computer name ? so 192.168.0.19 server-866 thats it ? lol, im not sure . im going to check the man files also . Im going to post my file and see if theres something in there I have done incorrectly. Once again thank you all who replied ! Very much appreciated !!! smb.conf to follow ; [global] domain logons = yes netbios name=nexus workgroup = WORKGROUP security = user encrypt passwords = yes os level = 34 local master = no logon script = user.bat # things to try... # also use %u which depending on the username # will execute a different bat file on the win9x box # to map different printers and shares for that particular # username [netlogon] comment = NEXUS SERVER path = /etc/samba public = no writeable = no browsable = no [public] path=/data read only = no public = yes [space] path =/space read only = no public = yes [ftp] path = /ftp read only = no public = yes [raid] path = /raid read only = no public = yes [backup] path =/backup read only = no public = yes