Sorry for this out of topic post but it is very often when you have win9x client in a network. The question is: how necessary it is to have a wins server? Cause I have none now in an intranet of 17 clients and have not noted any problem.... How do the win9x clients resolve the name if they dont have nobody to query to.. They do have a DNS server to which to go, but that one is outside our network and only responds (or should) to queries belonging to the global internet. If there can be an improvement regarding network load and response times I should set up some kind of wins server with Samba (you can do that with Samba, right?), otherwise things are going well as they are. Thanks in advance, Raúl P.S.: If this a repeated thread, I beg you forgive me since I am catching up with old mails. :-)