John H Terpstra wrote: > Stop Samba. Delete your wins.dat file and browse.dat file in /var/lib/samba Thanks, that did it. The files are in /var/cache/samba on FC3 Can I ask: in trying to sort this out, I discovered I wasn't running winbindd. Now, I've no other WINS server, although there is a DNS server. Do I need winbindd? Ruth