Hello Andrew, Friday, 12 January 2001, you wrote: AS> Hi AS> I have a SuSE 6.1 box acting as my internet AS> gateway and mail server. 'ipchains' is set up to AS> allow communications from windows clients to AS> the net and visa versa. Windows is set up to AS> use my ISP's DNS servers. If the linux box is AS> connected to the internet then windows will AS> boot fine, although if it's not connected, AS> windows will hang for several minutes after AS> logging on. I presume this is a problem with AS> DNS. I have tried to get round it by setting the AS> linux box up as a DNS server and getting AS> windows to use that in preference to any other AS> DNS, although this hasnt solved the problem. AS> Any suggestions? Are you running, and logging in to Samba? If so try setting dns proxy = no in the global section. This seems to stop Samba trying a reverse lookup on the ip address of the windows box (which I always set to a private class). Mark mailto:mcr@reason-technology.com