Hi All Could someone please advise me on the following log entries. I am using Samba to serve a 3 windows clients but noticed the following in my log files (still learning linux and discovered log files recently). The firewall lists this message every few seconds and it appears to relate to Samba and more specifically the nmbd daemon. Samba is working so it purely the log file filling up with these entries that concerns me most. Secondly I tried using nmblookup -M SERVER and it tries the address 192.168.0.255 as the "nameserver" whereas the SAMBA server is 192.168.0.10. Samba is setup to be the wins server. Many thanks Nigel Gaylard ***EXTRACT from LOG FILES **** Jul 11 15:15:18 server nmbd[1180]: [2003/07/11 15:15:18, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bcast(291) Jul 11 15:15:18 server nmbd[1180]: become_domain_master_browser_bcast: Jul 11 15:15:18 server nmbd[1180]: Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup MWDESIGNS on subnet 192.168.0.10 Jul 11 15:15:18 server nmbd[1180]: [2003/07/11 15:15:18, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bcast(305) Jul 11 15:15:18 server nmbd[1180]: become_domain_master_browser_bcast: querying subnet 192.168.0.10 for domain master browser on workgroup MWDESIGNS Jul 11 15:15:28 server nmbd[1180]: [2003/07/11 15:15:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_stage2(114) Jul 11 15:15:28 server nmbd[1180]: ***** Jul 11 15:15:28 server nmbd[1180]: Jul 11 15:15:28 server nmbd[1180]: Samba server SERVER is now a domain master browser for workgroup MWDESIGNS on subnet 192.168.0.10 Jul 11 15:15:28 server nmbd[1180]: Jul 11 15:15:28 server nmbd[1180]: ***** Jul 11 16:03:27 server kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-ANTI-SPOOFING IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.10 DST=192.168.0.255 LEN=256 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=162 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138 LEN=236 Jul 11 16:03:28 server nmbd[1470]: [2003/07/11 16:03:28, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(358) Jul 11 16:03:28 server nmbd[1470]: find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Jul 11 16:03:28 server nmbd[1470]: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name MWDESIGNS<1b> for the workgroup MWDESIGNS. Jul 11 16:03:28 server nmbd[1470]: Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup.