Folks, Many of you have seen my network traffic as I struggle to set up a small 2-subnet Samba-served LAN, and many of you have offered help in that endeavor, for which I thank you. Now, however, I'm confused. Last night, when I shut down to go to bed (I have, unfortunately, a day job, and my employer insists that I work it occasionally), I had no connection between my Win2k PC, or between my WinXP laptop, and my SUSE 9.3 server (running Samba as a PDC, and dhcp and dns servers). This evening, when I booted everything up (server first, then PC and laptop, as always), without doing anything else, there was my server, in both my PC's and laptop's Network Neighborhood windows, together with the laptop in the PC's window and the PC in the laptop's window, and I could connect to the server and begin working some share problems I'm having (I could get into my home share, so I know the connection was more than just a pretty picture in the window). Then I had occasion to reboot my PC (oddly, Firefox hung on an entirely unrelated task). When the PC came back up, there was no connection at all--the PC couldn't even see itself in its Network Neighborhood window. At about the same time, my laptop had lost its connection to the server, even though I had been doing nothing on it--it had even gone to sleep in power save mode--and also could not even see itself in its Network Neighborhood window when I woke it back up (although I don't think this was caused by the PC reboot). Now, 2 hours later, both the laptop and the PC can see themselves in their respective Network Neighborhood windows, but they can see nothing else--in particular, they cannot see the Samba server. What's going on? Why is this so inconsistent, and what can I do about it? ASCII art on my LAN is just below; all addresses are 192.168. .3.9 ----------.3.1----samba (PDC/dns/dhcp-----.2.2---------.2.9 (WinXP (NIC) | (NIC) (Win2k laptop) (NIC).1.2 PC) | | Linksys .1.1 | Internet Thanks for your help. Eric Hines There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell