Hi. this command was executed on the actual machine running wins...all the other boxes get the wins server's internal 192.168.x.x address via dhcp. -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Fri, 9 May 2003, Whitley GS11 Cecil H wrote: > Hi, > > >I have samba setup as the wins server for my network and have it first in > >the order of locations to look for hostnames in smb.conf. however when I > >mount a share I get the following error: > >wins_srv_died(): Could not mark WINS server 127.0.0.1 down. > >Address not found in server list. > I believe you need to have the actual IP address configured. Find out where > it is pulling the 127.0.0.1 from and replace it. To any other machine > 127.0.0.1 is itself, not your "wins" server. > Regards, > Cecil > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >