Are your DHCP options are setting your workgroup name? Perhaps you forgot to set that to match on the Windows box... Otherwise, within the smb.conf file there is a line where you can define allowable networks. It may be that you have defined this line, but that your allowable network addresses are not jiving with the hardcoded addresses you have set. Garrett > > Tom Wurdock wrote: > >> Hello all, >> ... snip ... >> If I use >> DHCP to configure my network, I can connect to my shares via samba >> from my >> windows box. If I hard-code my ip, gatewat, subnet, nameservers etc, I >> cannot connect. Wen hard-coded, I can get to the internet fine. >> Just Samba >> drops out. Any ideas? >> >> TOm >> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list