I've been testing core 3 test 3 2.92 for a month now and never got around to using the samba configuration app that is under the menu > system settings > server settings > samba. this ystem is up2date as of 10/31/04. I used the above menu to load up the "services" app to make sure smb and windbind are running in level 3 , 4, and 5 (not sure if level 4 should as I don't know much about that level) I made sure my sons machine is running and made sure samba is running on it, (suse 9.1) it can not see my machine and when I start konqueror in my machine and type smb:// his machines name it comes back with it can not find it. I also got a message when I clicked on local networks saying I needed lisa, so I opened a terminal and started lisa, now I see a bunch of local 127.x.x.x and see my box FED777 but do not see my son's. I'm not sure If I've done something to break it(probably), since I've spent my time learnig to properly compile the kernel so I could then compile the raid card driver's and read and write to it(ntfs was a disappointment can't write to it) last I've done a lot of reading from the google pages and man samba and have learned a lot even how to mount and dismount NTFS volumes in Windows, something totally unknown to me until today ;) but have not succeeded in fixing samba. I need to share my printer for the wife and son's machine. all suggestions are deeply appreciated and my appologies for the long and winding story ;)