I finally got NMB services to boot [OK] when I start up. But, I still can't see my computer on another NT box's netbios. I ran the nmbd -B 'server name' and got back the correct IP addres for my server. I also ran nmbd -d 'server name' '*' and got back a slew of IP addresses from the server. So, I believe that my Linux box is correctly communicating with the NT server. The way I corrected the NMB [FAILS] at boot problem was to add the servers' name and IP address to hosts and lmhosts files. Also I left the hostname on netconf as localhost.localdomain and left out the gateway address and netmask address. This left my netconf almost the way it was when I first installed the Mandrake 6.1 distribution. If anyone knows how to fix my current problem I would be most appreciative. Thanx, SA