To answer my own problem, it was a windoze config problem. We found a win98 doing the same thing and discovered that the subnet mask was incorrect on some of the client machines, doh. What a pain... John John Stevenson wrote: > > To add to the mistery, I have one win95 machine that works just > fine with two linux samba servers, but I have three win95 > machines that refuse to connect, stating that the share name is > incorrect. > > Anyone have any clues ??